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Fidante eyes actively managed ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... much more quickly." Challenger worked on the ActiveX idea for about a year before making an announcement at an investor forum yesterday. The Fidante Partners team that worked on the ETF series includes people who have helped launch ETFs and LICs in the ...

FASEA begins work on adviser exam

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority commenced a consultation process of sorts to assist with its design of the industry exam which all new and existing advisers will be required to pass. FASEA is seeking expressions of interest from ...

Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
A room full of finance professionals tackled tricky case studies at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Forum in Sydney yesterday afternoon. Technical services professionals from IOOF and BT Financial Group presented case studies based on two ...

Super scorecard to shift consumer playing field

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... retirement. The Committee for Sustainable Retirement Incomes (CSRI) is introducing the scorecard at its 2018 leadership forum in Canberra today. The scorecard is based on an integration of five core capabilities: strategy and governance, understanding ...

Age Pension needs national objective: Actuary

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... several policy initiatives Rice has outlined in a paper prepared for the Actuaries Institute and its Financial Services Forum finishing in Sydney today. He said the significance and eligibility of the Age Pension has changed many times and a documented ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... dollar." Never mind that it contracted what his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared a day before at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mnuchin said he welcomed a weaker US dollar because it would benefit the country's external ...

Private debt attractive for instos: Sahota

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... in Australia is "as old as the hills" but has been the domain of the big four until recently, Sahota said at an investor forum on Wednesday. "As a result, institutional and HNW investors have traditionally found it difficult to get access to this market ...

Chief economist update: Stuck in the very slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... Normally, I wouldn't quibble about decimal points but RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle's recent statement at the CFO Forum held in Sydney yesterday, quipped that "Recent data on wages provides some assurance that wages growth has troughed." For ...

NSW Treasury appoints productivity commissioner

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
A former ATO deputy commissioner and the current chair of Sydney Financial Forum has been appointed a top role at New South Wales Treasury. Joining the NSW Government as its first productivity commissioner is Peter Achterstraat. His mandate is to "bust ...

QIC expands executive team, bolsters US footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... strategy and share market intelligence with the firm's investment teams. He will also chair the newly established US Leadership Forum comprising representatives from QIC Global Real Estate, Global Infrastructure and Global Private Capital. Prior to joining ...