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Advisers switch platforms amid pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
New research has revealed Australia's financial advisers switched between various investment platforms in their search for better service and support in the wake of the Royal Commission and COVID-19 pandemic. Investment Trends' 2020 Planner Technology ...

Vale Ian Perkins

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
Australian financial services veteran Ian Perkins is being remembered for his warmth, passion and joy for life, after passing away suddenly on June 29. Perkins spent the last six years working with BNP Paribas Securities Services, where he was responsible ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
A draft report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report ...

Industry fund eyes KiwiSaver accounts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
A $3.4 billion industry superannuation fund has struck an exclusive partnership which it hopes will help it attract 3000 new members each year. First Super, which traditionally services the paper and timber industry but is public offer, will now be ...

Schroders readies private assets offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
The global manager's Australian business has launched a private equity fund for sophisticated investors, with a private debt fund launch chalked in for the second half of the year. The Schroders Specialist Private Equity Fund (SSPEF) is an Australian-domiciled ...

SG Hiscock, Morgan Stanley launch global equity funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... Responsible Entity (RE) of the two Partnership Program funds. Equity Trustees' head of global fund services and executive general manager corporate trust services Harvey Kalman said the business is proud to be continuing its longstanding partnership ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
"This is a once-in-a-100 year type event, we haven't seen this sort of thing in Australia since the end of the first World War..." This was how Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the coronavirus outbreak shortly after the World Health ...

AFCA sees 14% rise in complaints

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... 753 for being charged incorrect fees/costs and 648 for poor service quality. Most COVID-19-related complaints were about general insurance claims, at 1813, with more than 1500 of these being travel insurance complaints. Another major issue for consumers ...

Perpetual wins government fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... impact as well as for profit," Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a statement. Perpetual Corporate Trust general manager Glen Dogan said: "We are seeing a growing interest in social impact funds across the private and public sectors. The ...

Bank hires new wealth chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... Australia and overseas and joins from Commonwealth Bank where he worked the past 10 years. His most recent role was executive general manager business customer solutions where he was responsible for business products across lending, deposits, merchants ...