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Challenger to buy industry-fund-owned bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
... its current term annuities," Sotiriou said. "To be clear, CGF is set to offer term deposits, but gain the net interest margin through existing investment methods (for a one-year term it is likely to be high quality fixed income investments), rather than ...

End of the road for advice qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... Advanced Diploma of Financial Planning and a further three Tier 1 personal advice units of competency in financial planning, margin lending and superannuation. According to Rainmaker analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register, about 9894 current ...

Societe Generale fined over client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
... breaches during January 2017 through to January 2018 where on 20 separate occasions part of Societe Generale's intercompany margin call/reconciliation process included withdrawing approximately $500 million in client money from client segregated accounts. ...

New ETF set to debut on ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... means investors are getting the Sydney and Gold Coast casinos for a steal, and this is what value investors call a big margin of safety," he said. "The company's share price could more than double over the next few years, which is why it's also a key ...

ATO warns against SMSF property development

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... other related parties, and GST matters such as GST registration requirements, correct reporting and the application of the margin scheme." The ATO also warned that where an SMSF conducts a property development, care needs to be taken that the parties ...

COVID-19 to push life premiums up: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... posed an especially difficult set of challenges for those offering income protection products, noting recent APRA profit margin figures - released pre-COVID-19 - show insurers and reinsurers are bleeding worse than ever before, with a combined after-tax ...

Moody's downgrades AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... allegations of governance failures raised at the Royal Commission," Moody's said. Moody's said it anticipates ongoing margin compression along with higher regulatory and compliance costs continuing to constrain AMP Group earnings this year. "The ...

APRA opens margin requirement talks

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
Super funds and life insurers have two weeks to air their opinions on APRA's proposed amendments to its margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. Consultation has opened for APRA-regulated entities to consult with the prudential regulator ...

Consultancy launches virtual business coaching

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... to iterate their business model," Elixir Consulting founder Sue Viskovic said. "Between added compliance and study requirements, at a time where their margins are squeezed, advisers can't afford to waste any of the limited amount of time they can ...

AMP wealth arm leaked $873 million in first half

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... This was made possible because the growth in its advice and SMSF businesses, and trimming of controllable costs offset the margin compression from final MySuper transitions, the group said. North platform The biggest inflows for AMP's wealth management ...