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Labor responds to 'unfair' Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
The Labor Party said pensioners and working Australians will be most disadvantaged by this year's Budget proposals. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the Liberal Government's budget is "unfair" and favours big business. In a series of Tweets, Shorten ...

Insto investment committees step away from status quo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... regular intervals. Speaking at the 2018 Willis Towers Watson Ideas Exchange in Melbourne, O'Gorman said there are three major risks to this approach. The first is that overall investment objectives are misaligned because each asset class is only optimised ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... When the clock strikes half past seven and Treasurer Scott Morrison starts to read his speech, here is what Australia's major financial services associations will be hoping for. Financial Planning Association (FPA) In a 45-page pre-budget submission ...

Perpetual director joins ING board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... (asset-backed debt and residential mortgage-backed securities) issued by non-banks. "The RMBS market which was once dominated by the major banks, has a healthy range of active issuers with 85% of investors having invested with non-bank issuers in the ...

InvestSMART to launch active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
InvestSMART will launch an initial public offering for an actively-managed equity income ETF on May 14. The InvestSMART Australian Equity Income Fund (managed fund), trading under the ticker code INIF, will mirror InvestSMART's Australian Equity Income ...

Trustee firm lists $2bn in RMBS debt securities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... backed debt and residential mortgage backed securities) issued by non-banks. "The RMBS market which was once dominated by the major banks, has a healthy range of active issuers with 85% of investors having invested with non-bank issuers in the past 12 ...

S&P to remove ASX healthcare firm from index

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
An ASX-listed healthcare firm, currently subject to a potential class action by shareholders which include major Australian asset managers, will be removed from the ASX 200 pending acquisition by a US company. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Sirtex Medical ...

NAB to divest MLC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... wealth management space unattractive: "There's never been such a hyper-sensitivity with compliance as there is within the major banks. It's expensive, and they're now looking at what they have and whether they want it."

ASIC tightens grip on ICO issuers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... investors. Centra Tech Inc. allegedly deceived investors by making claims about nonexistent business relationships with major credit card companies, fictional executive bios, and misrepresentations about the viability of the company's core financial ...

Life insurance regulation needs government backing: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
An overwhelming number of people who work in life insurance believe the industry needs government backing so it can properly regulate. In a survey conducted by DST Systems, a large number of respondents (85%) want to engage with ASIC to strengthen the ...