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Paraplanners tackle compliance challenges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... Standard 6 could be read to mean that subject and scope are going to become more important and that should be reflected in an SOA. For example, paraplanners need to explain why certain issues were not addressed to accurately outline the scope of the ...

Dover, McMaster found guilty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
The Federal Court has found Dover Financial Advisers and Terry McMaster guilty in the case brought against them by ASIC. In a judgement handed down on Friday, Dover Financial Advisers and Terry McMaster have been found guilty of false, misleading and ...

Chief economist update: Lower iron ore a boon to the Aussie budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. In the case of iron ore prices, it's a tale of two markets this year - a bull market in the first half; a bear market in the second half. Iron ore ...

Chief economist update: Good news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas has come early... and Thanksgiving too. Wall Street benchmark equity indices rallied at the close of trading last week: The S&P 500 added 1.0% to a new all-time high; the Nasdaq closed 1.1% up but not ...

China backs blockchain, Bitcoin soars

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
Bitcoin increased its market cap by $55 billion after Chinese President Xi Jinping said China must "seize the opportunity" for blockchain technology. "We must take blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies ...

No one reads the PDS: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
ASIC is calling time on the financial services industry's reliance on disclosure as the default consumer protection, saying it enables poor conduct and poor consumer outcomes. The regulator said disclosures have been assumed to inform consumers to make ...

Chief economist update: Plenty of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
Oil prices soared after a drone attack on September 14 on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil-processing plant (estimated to produce around 5% of global oil supply). WTI and Brent crude oil prices jumped by 14.6%, to US$62.88 per barrel and US$69.03/barrel ...

Chief executive bonuses unscathed by public perception

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
Declining public trust in the post-Royal Commission world was not enough to dampen executive pay packets, with over half of ASX100 chief executives receiving at least 70% of their maximum entitlement. A report from the Australian Council of Superannuation ...

Industry Fund Services adopts regtech solution

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... one of the first licensees to use a machine learning AI platform to conduct reviews of the entire client file, not just the SOA, thereby further reducing the risk of error, it said. IFS chief executive Cath Bowtell said the new partnership will reduce ...

Best online brokers revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
New research from Investment Trends has revealed the online brokers with the most satisfied customers in Australia. Bell Direct, CMC Markets and SelfWealth clients report the most satisfaction with their online broker. Bell Direct ranked first with ...