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Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Innovation and new technologies are having a profound impact on the global recovery, helping to ease inflationary pressure and easing the pressure on the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy. That was one conclusion reached by 85 BlackRock investment ...

Adviser trust improves client outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Financial advisers imbued with the most trust by their clients are better qualified and more experienced than their counterparts, according to research by the Beddoes Institute. The data and benchmarking company analysed thousands of client ratings ...

Who should be in the 2014 #fsPower50?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Who will make it to this year's list of the top 50 social media influencers in financial services? The search begins. Last year, Financial Standard launched the inaugural Financial Standard Power 50 (#FSPOWER50) : our list of 50 financial services professionals ...

CFSGAM appoints Five Oceans founding member

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has expanded its Australian equities team with the appointment of a new portfolio manager. Kim Tracey joins CFSGAM from boutique international equities manager Five Oceans Asset Management, where ...

Insurers worried about striking balance between claims and price

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
Life insurers think balancing rising claims with sustainable premiums for members is the greatest challenge that the sector is facing at the moment, an AIA Australia survey has found. Most superannuation fund and insurance companies' execs and employees ...

Whitehelm appointed to advise $2 billion Land Account

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
Global infrastructure investment manager Whitehelm Capital has been appointed as investment adviser for the $2 billion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Account. Operating under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005, the Land Account ...

FSC advice regulation plan leaves AMP cold

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC)'s recently proposed advice regulation plan lacks the support of one of its biggest members. AMP has said it does not believe in a regulatory solution to restore consumer confidence and trust in financial advice ...

Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has lambasted the Labor party for "complaining about its own laws" and making "such a mess of the entire crisis of financial advice." Hockey accused Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen of being "too busy in engaging with unfair dismissal ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Advice industry self-regulation is not an appropriate model to increase professionalism in the financial advice industry, as associations have "an inevitable conflict of interest," the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has argued. "Industry ...

AustralianSuper to charge for over-the-phone advice

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... previously professionals would qualify if they could demonstrate they were unable to continue working in their own profession, in the new definition you must be "incapable of even engaging in any occupation for which you are, or may become, reasonably ...