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Frydenberg makes big promises for small business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019

... threshold, up from the current $20,000 and promised $25,000, and the news that more businesses will be eligible to use this incentive." Both the higher threshold and making the write off available to businesses with turnover up to $50 million, up from ...

ClearView defends risk advice commissions

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019

... to be tax deductible. Currently, investment advice fees are tax deductible against income-producing assets. This tax incentive should be expanded to fees such as ongoing personal advice and preparing a financial plan or Statement of Advice, it proposed. ...

NAB ends introducer payments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019

... because a third party received a payment to recommend us." NAB will still accept referrals, but there will no longer be an incentive payment for these referrals. "Like other businesses, we will still welcome referrals and will continue to build strong ...

Banks move to derisk, workforces shrink

KANIKA SOOD | MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019

... unload their holdings," Financial Standard director of economics and investments Ben Ong says. But super funds have incentive to stay in bank stocks and the purchasing power to buy more. "It is the same heavy weighting that, however, would prevent funds ...

AMP scraps bonuses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019

AMP will no longer be awarding incentives for leadership teams. Meanwhile, former executives have forfeited long and short term incentives and fees paid to board directors have been reduced. In its 2018 annual report chairman David Murray wrote: "The ...

Nikko AM chief executive steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019

... comes after he was named in a US lawsuit alleging he deliberately made lucrative stock options that were part of an incentive scheme for employees worthless. The civil case was brought by 7 former employees of Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management who are ...

Advisers to return US$125m in fees

KANIKA SOOD | TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019

Financial advisers in the US are set to return about US$125m million to retail customers after a regulatory clampdown on inadequate fee disclosures last year. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged 79 people, including well-known names such ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD | THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019

... companies to become more transparent as they try to attract foreign institutional investors. "This should be a good incentive for local companies to increase the transparency of their reporting practices and to adopt strategies that more firmly consider ...

Grandfathered commissions ban splits industry: Poll

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019

... Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms to an end. The time for transition has passed," Hayne said. "Advisers have an incentive to keep their clients in products with grandfathered commissions rather than advise them to move to better products. There ...

Labor responds to Royal Commission final report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019

The Labor Party will look to ban the payment of grandfathered commissions by January 2020 if successful at the upcoming Federal election. Responding to the final report, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said the party has already tabled a bill to end the ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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