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Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... industry continued its growth trajectory it would reach US$30 trillion ($42 trillion) by 2030. Driving this will be two major forces: a flood of new fixed income ETFs and the transporting of active strategies to the "ETF wrapper." Further explaining ...

Analysts await next Magellan move

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... outcome for investors." "While our preference leans towards board structures with an independent chair, as co-founder and major shareholder Douglass has been instrumental in setting the strategic direction of the firm, which will continue in his new ...

Labor Government on the cards: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
There is a good chance that the Labor Party will win the next election, Financial Standard's readership says. We recently asked our readers which of the following events will likely eventuate in the next 12 months: a global trade war; China going into ...

Freedom drops chief, slashes workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
The chief executive of Freedom Insurance Group has left the company effective immediately and more than half of its workforce is being made redundant. Chief executive Keith Cohen, who has been at the helm for nearly nine years, will be replaced by chief ...

Industry fund members more satisfied

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
Despite the flak the superannuation industry has received from the Royal Commission, industry fund members are more satisfied with their fund than retail members. This is according to a survey of 50,000 participants conducted Roy Morgan, which pitted ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... wines into new bottles." That may be, but according to the Washington Post's "Wonkblog" President Trump wins: "He got a major trade deal done and will be able to say it's another "promise kept" to his voters right before the midterm elections. ...

AMP, banks respond to RC interim report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... on misconduct in the financial services sector. The report, released on Friday, was scathing in its review of Australia's major players in financial services. While making no recommendations, in discussing the conduct of AMP Commissioner Kenneth Hayne ...

FSU, FSC respond to interim report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... extraordinary pressure to sell, sell, sell." The FSU said better governance, better regulation and better culture are the three major changes needed to clean up the sector. Self-regulation has failed in the sector with the Royal Commission demonstrating ...

Regulatory inadequacy to blame: Hayne

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... and undertakings to take steps to restore public trust, he said. "That generally similar conduct occurred in all of the major entities suggests that the conduct cannot be explained as 'a few bad apples.' That characterisation serves to contain allegations ...

Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
The industry's remuneration practices and policies played a major role in the banking misconduct uncovered by the Royal Commission Inquiry, the interim report found. Governance and risk management practices failed to prevent the misconduct where ...