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OPINION: Post RC, where to now for retail super?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
After a damning report card by the Royal Commission, the big question is where to now for retail superannuation and its advisory network ecosystem? At least we know what's not part of the answer: the status quo. Retail superannuation may not be ...

Westpac executive remuneration voted down

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... stating that making financial planning "work" within the group was underestimated, Westpac is nonetheless sticking to its guns by retaining its wealth management arm when the other major banks are attempting to exit the sector. In other agenda items ...

The future of advice fee structures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... and product advice, which has continued to promote a product-oriented culture, he added. "The old guard is sticking to its guns and arguing that a ban on grandfathered revenue will unfairly result in excessive profits flowing to the institutional product ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... the downside risks to growth and inflation have eased. But not Westpac, its chief economist Bill Evans is sticking to his guns and saying that, "we are not convinced that the cash rate will need to rise any time throughout the course of 2017, 2018 or ...

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... Artist. Not to be outdone, Sara Higgins from PIMCO won the ANZ People's Choice Award for her energetic reprisal of a classic, Guns and Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine'. There was no shortage of talent onstage: Tim Sanderson from Count won the Challenger ...

Embrace change to stay relevant

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... position in (and relationship with) the marketplace. He added, "It's like the eight-second rule with reloading artillery guns. It's only when someone asked why that was done that they realised it was because horses used to carry munitions to the guns ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... to lay the golden egg? My sense is that the BOJ does not want to push the issue further lest Uncle Sam brings out the big guns and brand it a currency manipulator. The BOJ has done this before. It verbally intervened - warning about the excessive depreciation ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... a,-700 monthly stipend to pensioners, among others. Tsipras campaigned and won on this platform and he's sticking to his guns. No wonder his approval rating has shot up to 70% plus unlike that other PM from downunder who just had a "near-death experience" ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
Australia is home to around 195,000 millionaire households, putting the country 14th in the global league tables, just ahead of India. The figure comes from the latest private wealth survey from management consultant, the Boston Consulting Group. Leading ...