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The lucky country for fintechs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... encouraging digitisation of government payments and provision of services; and expanding the quality and range of services through sound financial market infrastructure and systems.

Royal Commission hits Westpac cash earnings

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... administration on the platform increased 85% to $12.4 billion over the 12 month period. The group described its business growth as sound, with loan growth up 4%, average funds also rising 4% and life insurance premiums 20% higher. "While we have more ...

Private equity will become bigger than hedge funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... strong growth in emerging markets," the report said. Preqin chief executive Mark O'Hare said: "Fourteen trillion dollars may sound like an overly ambitious prediction for the alternative assets industry, but it is lower than the average growth rate we've ...

CFS strikes strategic distribution deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... identifying regular, sustainable, high growth businesses that can outperform their peer group over time to provide investors a sound source of return in their portfolios," Chun said. Since its 2006 inception, the fund has achieved a 6.43% return per ...

Insurance shake-up puts clients first

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... were advised to become a call centre operator. While stories from his professional experience and some from the Commission sound "horrible," Berrill says they are not the norm. There'll always be extreme examples or outliers of bad behaviour, he says. ...

Industry fund cuts property portfolio emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... energy efficiency." While Australia is locked in a policy quagmire on climate action, the world is moving on and this makes sound investment and economic sense, he added. "The world needs to keep warming below two degrees and we have an obligation to ...

UK adviser competency to be re-evaluated

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... necessary to re-test specific advisers. "We believe that advisers having a good level of knowledge is the foundation to giving sound financial advice. This is particularly the case with the more technical aspects of financial advice," the FCA said. The ...

No time for complacency: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
Not-for-profit funds have been vindicated by the Royal Commission's "damning" preliminary findings into the retail super sector but can't afford to be complacent, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. Kicking off ...

APRA banned one person in 10 years: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
The Royal Commission heard Australia's prudential regulator has banned one person for not being fit and proper since 2008 - after the law changed requiring APRA take the matter to court. Under examination from counsel assisting Michael Hodge, APRA deputy ...

AFSL launches new IFA dealer service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... licensee management, advice, commercial and technical skills," he said. "Through Affinia Access we are equipping AFSLs with sound advice infrastructure, professional standards frameworks and management strategies to create a service offering suited to ...