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NFP super funds rise to occasion post-Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... not-for-profit funds to be exemplary in terms of practices and performance. This was a key message at this year's Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF), which kicked off at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre yesterday. Welcoming about 1000 ...

Jamieson Coote Bonds introduces global fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... seems deeply intertwined with the performance of the Chinese economy, given Australia's heavy reliance on China as a major trade partner." JCB said it has actively managed its global strategy since February 2018. Its investment process relies on ...

Advisers to return US$125m in fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Financial advisers in the US are set to return about US$125m million to retail customers after a regulatory clampdown on inadequate fee disclosures last year. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged 79 people, including well-known names such ...

CFSGAM expands US footprint with senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... staff at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where he held a senior management role overseeing the region's major infrastructure assets. Diloshini Seneviratne was appointed to the board which oversees some of CFSGAM's funds. Seneviratne ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... slowdown in China and its continuing effort to reduce pollution by restricting steel production (of which iron ore is the major raw material), notwithstanding Beijing's latest salvo at stimulating its economy through fiscal and monetary policies. ...

Clayton Utz finally hands AMP notes to ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
ASIC has struck a major blow in its court battle with AMP over the wealth manager's fee-for-no-service issues. The corporate regulator was handed internal file notes from law firm Clayton Utz last week, which relate to the firm's interviews ...

ASIC scolds banks over fee-for-no-service delays

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
Australia's major financial services institutions are taking too long to remediate customers over their fee-for-no-service issues and ASIC is not pleased. The corporate regulator released an update to the "further review" programs currently underway ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... the University of Sydney. Taking heed from Robert Frost and his iconic poem 'The Road Not Taken', Falas chose to major in econometrics - the branch of economics specifically concerned with mathematical methods, particularly statistics. "I really ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... just as I turned Dr. Doom towards the second half of last year, the policy (easing/halt) responses from the world's major central banks (and fiscal authorities - China) have revived my optimism over the global growth outlook and with that, my sentiment ...

Risk advice a hard sell: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... countries, typically driven by financial constraints. "To the extent that demand for life insurance generally coincides with major life events, for example taking on major debt such as a mortgage, or the birth of a child, we often see the paradox that ...