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netwealth to grow IFA base, eyes app-savvy investors

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... reviewing their business models and willing to start with a blank canvas. "In the past, many IFAs aren't sure about making big changes. Now the dealer groups we are speaking to are very happy to put everything on the table and make decisions from scratch," ...

Budget big picture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... government bond liability. The annual deficit being equivalent to 25.8% of GDP shows how addicted Australia has become to big government - not since the early 1980s has government expenditure been consistently less than 24% of GDP. By comparison the ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... grown to a disproportionately large weighting in the market. The entire Japanese banking sector value is 20% less than the big four Australian banks together. This, Hofflin argues, is unsustainable. "Put simply, Australian banks earn very high profits. ...

Acorns app enters superannuation sector

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Micro-investment savings app Acorns has entered into a partnership with the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals to create a new Acorns-like app for superannuation contributions. As previously reported in Financial Standard, Acorns ...

Three Aus funds awarded AAA climate rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Three Australian superannuation funds have received AAA ratings for their climate change risk management from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project's (AODP) 2016 benchmark index, The Global Climate 500 Index. Local Government Super and Australian Super ...

Robo-advice to impact not replace: CFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
Robo-advice is set to have the greatest impact on the financial services industry over the next five years, according to new member research by CFA Institute. The Fintech Survey found that 70% of respondents believe that mass affluent investors will ...

Fiducian targeting SMAs

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... capability to service the SMA market and facilitate faster turnaround of SMSF accounting engagements," Dunne said. "There is a big market out there for SMAs being set up by IFAs, and the FASTrack system backed by Fiducian Online is tailor-made to serve ...

FSC sends final budget message

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
A reduction in concessional contribution caps for middle-income superannuation members would hurt Australia's budget long-term, bear an increased cost to taxpayers, and not align with super's objective. This is the final message from the Financial Services ...

Registrations for Adviser Big Day Out VICTAS closing soon

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
Registrations will soon close for the Victoria and Tasmania legs of the Advisers Big Day Out tour. The Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO) program is an independently conducted professional development Roadshow, designed to give financial advisers and planners ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... jawboning word from RBA governor Glenn Stevens, should keep the A$ well-bid in the near term. US housing starts There was a big disappointment in the latest update on the US housing sector. Housing starts dropped by 8.8% in the month of March to an annualised ...