Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 3651 - 3660 of 6264 results for "DET"

Don't flood managed accounts with excess investment options: advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Tailored investment solutions are more important to advisers using managed accounts than excessively wide ranges of investment choices, according to Rainmaker research. Speaking at the 2015 Financial Standard Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum, Rainmaker ...

GFC drove advisers to managed accounts

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
The GFC was a defining chapter in the growth of managed accounts, according to panelists at the 2015 Financial Standard Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum. Speaking on a panel chaired by managedaccounts.com.au chief executive David Heather, Paradigm ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Australians have recorded the fourth highest number of cashless transactions per capita worldwide according to the latest report from Capgemini. The consulting and outsourcing firm's annual World Payments Report suggests cashless payments are forecasted ...

Super and TPD definitions in the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Debate around definitions for total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance claims through superannuation funds has again come under the spotlight. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) event in Sydney this morning ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
She was damned when she didn't, she would have been damned now if she did. "Perhaps Janet Yellen has heard us," as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde French journal 'Les Echos' just over a week after the Fed kept the status quo following their ...

Data doesn't justify "recession" headlines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
Oh-em-gee! The R-word is back! I could almost hear my next door neighbour saying "I told you so" with the attendant knowing smirk and a wagging finger. Yes Virginia, a recession is again looming for Australia brought to us by the Sydney Morning Herald's ...

CBA's advice review compensates 19 clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
The compensation program set up by Commonwealth Bank (CBA) to compensate victims of bad advice has reviewed over 8,800 cases and compensated only 19 clients. In total, the bank has offered $950,252 in compensation, but paid $488,815 as of 31 August ...

Link Group announces plans for float

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Superannuation administration company Link Group is targeting a valuation of up to $2.6 billion in an initial public offer expected to take place on 27 October. Details in the prospectus reveal the company aims to raise between $879.2 million and $946.5 ...

Managed Accounts challenge to retail wealth groups

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Almost all major retail wealth groups now offer managed accounts but that doesn't mean they are using the same strategy to get involved with the emerging sector. Rainmaker has just completed its second annual Managed Accounts report containing a detailed ...

Super fund boss: We're not IT companies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Ongoing technology challenges for superannuation funds and the wider financial services industry present an unclear business planning path but an opportunistic path nonetheless. UniSuper chair Chris Cuffe said technology was still a "blind spot" among ...