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Estate planning lawyer fined for misconduct

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
A solicitor who witnessed a client's estate planning documents before they had been signed by the testator or donor recently copped a $3000 fine and escaped being struck off the Roll. Martin Dubler is on the Supreme Court of New South Wales Roll ...

StatePlus awards custody mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
StatePlus has awarded a custody mandate to the same provider as its $90 billion parent First State Super. The financial advice and investments firm's custody mandate was won by State Street. State Street will now provide StatePlus with back office ...

WAM CIO steps down from LIC board

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
The chief investment officer at Wilson Asset Management is stepping down from his role as a non-executive director of a WAM-managed listed investment company. Chris Stott retired from the board of Century Australia Investments, which invests in the ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
The sharp turnaround in the All Ordinaries index from the 2018 low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 ...

Government consults on super access for victims of crime

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
The Federal Government released draft proposals for improving compensation for victims of crime, including the ability to claw-back irregular superannuation contributions made by criminals. To ensure superannuation accounts cannot be used as a safe ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

Life insurance data improving: Regulators

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
Latest life insurance claim data from APRA and ASIC found group and adviser distributed cover to experience higher claim submission rates. The second round of pilot phase data also found more than 90% of life insurance claims that go to decision are ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
I'm all for transparency but some discussions or disagreements are better resolved behind closed doors. Not for the limelight/spotlight-hogging president of the US. Donald Trump didn't take to Twitter this time, he penned an open letter to tell ...

Chief economist update: Fed will go hiking in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
Another rate hike is coming soon! This is the almost unanimous verdict financial markets and the intelligentsia gave after reading the minutes of the US Federal Reserve's 1-2 May FOMC meeting. Can't blame them, it was there all for everybody ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
There is division over whether or not private life insurers should be able to fund medical treatments for rehabilitating customers - the subject of a current Parliamentary Joint Committee - with giants like MLC Insurance and AustralianSuper batting ...