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Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... them to cover. Speaking to Financial Standard, Gamma Wealth Management managing director Fraser Kahler said that during the GFC, when he set up his independent AFSL, there were about three different PI insurance providers in the marketplace. "Now there's ...

Retirees 'much worse' off: RBA

JASON CADDEN FOR AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... were the "lowest ever in human history", adding that he believed it would take a while for interest rates to recover to pre-GFC levels. "It will be quite an adjustment to get back to that world and it seems to be quite slow in coming," he said. "Ultimately ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Six years after US financial regulatory mismanagement triggered the GFC, US policy makers are still debating how the US regulatory system should be restructured. The Volcker Alliance, a non-partisan regulatory think tank comprising former senior regulators ...

Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... their investment strategy. "The demand for transparency and value for money started very early on in Australia. Prior to the GFC the lack of transparency was tolerable and even forgivable because everything was going well, even if what led high returns ...

Investors plan to up active allocation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... portfolios from volatility, while 24% said a diversified approach would be the best way to tackle the challenges ahead. "In a post-GFC environment, we are seeing investor preferences move towards a more tailored approach - the appetite is towards funds ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... speed up slightly to a jogging pace of 1.6% in five years time. Similarly, that for emerging economies went from 7.5% pre-GFC to around 6.5% post and predicted to just 5.2% over the next half decade.... and these, if we could put a certain level of reliability ...

CFA appoints Australia head of advocacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... relevant in the context of the recent Financial Services Inquiry, FOFA and other changes to superannuation in Australia post the GFC," he added. "We are committed to working with the government and industry players to restore trust in the investment ...

Life cover shifting to younger, lower-income households

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... - in particular those between 18 and 34 - by 1.9 to 26.4. TAL group chief executive Jim Minto believes this is due to the GFC and how it influenced younger Australians' perceptions of income protection. "One factor that may be relevant to the higher ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... weekly earnings slowed to 2.0% in February from 2.2% in the previous month (wages growth had a 3 in front of it before the GFC). Likewise, the participation rate edged down to 62.8% from 62.9 in January and average weekly hours worked remained unchanged ...

Findex appoints head of investment research

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... presenting a Findex house view on corporate governance and compliance," he said. "These areas become very significant in a post GFC world and he will follow through integrating this across all our platforms, SOAs, MDAs and brokerage services."