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Future Fund chief to lead IFM Investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... advisory council and of the ASIC external advisory committee. Neal's move to IFM comes after Brett Himbury's surprise resignation from IFM Investors in September last year after a decade in the role, during which IFM grew from managing about ...

Bonds not out of the game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... Mark Todd. Looking into the performance of the major bond funds form the last 12 months, Todd said the figures might surprise investors. "Fund manager performance is as diverse as the strategies they use. Some recent performances could be viewed as surprising ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
The past year has served as the beginning of the superannuation industry's transformation. Yes, recent years have seen nothing but reform after reform, but 2019 has been something different entirely. The Productivity Commission and Royal Commission ...

Westpac to pay $9.5m for Corps Act breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... them, were deficient and defective, both as a matter of process and in substance. "That should not have been a complete surprise to Westpac because Mr Sinha's less than satisfactory conduct as a financial adviser had previously come to the attention ...

Time-poor advisers to embrace model portfolios

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... client relationships and broaden their client book. The desire to build a larger book of clients perhaps comes as no surprise, with Australian advisers servicing an average of 40 clients each, compared to 64 clients per adviser for US-based planners. ...

Aussies unprepared for wealth transfer

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2019
Despite the largest intergenerational wealth transfer to date looming, more than half of Australians do not have an estate plan in place. New research from Perpetual shows 56% of Australians do not have a will in place, with 53% of parents admitting ...

FASEA exam tips from those who passed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
A group of financial planners who recently passed the FASEA exam have offered their tips for success to delegates at the 2019 FPA Congress during a chat with the authority's chief executive, Stephen Glenfield. Glenfield sat with Tupicoffs' Delma Newton ...

Chief economist update: US consumer power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... 92% of the companies in the S&P 500 reporting actual results), 75% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive EPS surprise and 60% of S&P 500 companies have reported a positive revenue surprise." A good result but... a result of managed expectations? ...

Mental health costs insurers $750m per year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
Taking a proactive approach to helping those suffering from mental illness could save insurers up to $750 million per year, according to SuperFriend. Speaking to Financial Standard, Superfriend chief executive Margo Lydon said that of the $180 billion ...

Chief economist update: The PBOC stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... what's a central bank to do? In the case of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), it's going for growth. In a surprise move, the Chinese central bank cut its seven-day reverse repo rate from 2.55% to 2.5% yesterday - the first rate reduction ...