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Dead advice clients slugged ongoing service fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... service fees despite not providing any advice to any clients. "This is the document from one risk and compliance committee forum. How many Count advisers would need to not be providing ongoing services before it was considered a systemic issue?" Hodge ...

AIST president and board director switch seats

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... many significant developments including the roll out of AIST's new Governance Code, the merger of AIST and Industry Funds Forum and the development of the industry-wide insurance code," Scheerlinck said. AIST's new president Bolger has held directorships ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about oil baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... talking tough and raising the ante on the brewing trade war with the US, Xi announced the opposite. In his speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, the supremo talked about lowering (you read right, lowering) import tariffs, relaxing foreign ...

Spotlight on financial elder abuse

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... radar as it becomes increasingly difficult to recognise. Speaking at the Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum, KJB Law senior solicitor Kerstin Glomb said cases of improper exploitation - being abuse of a trust relationship resulting ...

Responding to the revolution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... lessons in history on how best to respond. Addressing the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds in Brisbane, World Economic Forum head of society and innovation Nicholas Davis said there is great fear around innovation and automation, but what institutions ...

Crunch time for limited MDA advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... fully outsourced MDA approach." The Fold Legal managing director Claire Wivell Plater told last year's Managed Accounts Forum that limited MDAs arose about 14 years ago as a result of advisers who had a limited power of attorney from clients to enable ...

Sunsuper executive joins IFM Investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
The chief investment operations officer at Sunsuper has joined IFM Investors in a newly created role. Lounarda David has been appointed as chief operations officer to further support IFM's growing investment management business. The role was created ...

Retirees force the politics of income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
Aberdeen Standard Investments chief economist Jeremy Lawson told the 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum that retirees' influence on populism is a major dilemma for asset managers globally. Since the Global Financial Crisis retirees have ...

Go your own way: AXA IM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... head of Framlington Equities - Asia, Mark Tinker, when speaking at this morning's 2018 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. Tinker told delegates the momentum in 2018 for longer-term thematic trades has many looking at global growth and ...

Record high returns elusive in 2018: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... euphoric levels of financial market returns experienced in 2017. Speaking at this morning's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum, Baur said global economies were returning to normal, which in turn signals that interest rates are also returning to ...