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2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
The 2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards recognise investment strategies that showcase all the qualities investors are looking for in an investment manager in an evidence-based and transparent way. Investment leadership is not only about ...

PeakSuper eyes expansion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
A newly rebranded SMSF service provider is hoping to expand its market reach with the help of financial advisers. Adelaide-based PeakSuper, formerly Catapult Super, will look to build partnerships with advisers to assist their clients with the establishment ...

AMP Capital strengthens restructured equities team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
In the wake of shuttering its core Australian equities capabilities and restructuring its domestic investment team, AMP Capital is welcoming two new portfolio managers and an analyst to the business. Joining from IFM Investors, Matthew Griffin will ...

Cromwell appoints chief capital officer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Cromwell Property Group has appointed a new chief capital officer. Simon Garing joins Cromwell from Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hong Kong, where he was deputy director of research - Asia-Pacific. Prior to that, he was head of real estate research ...

Ho ho hum MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
What a difference seven months made. More specifically the time Budget 2017-18 was released last May to the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) released yesterday. The difference is A$5.8 billion. This is the improvement in the country's budget ...

Fee-for-service faces ultimate risk test

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
Rollout of the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) on 1 January 2018 will be the strongest test of fee-for-service risk advice, a model seen as imperative to the financial advice industry's future. Industry experts say the critical component to make fee-for-service ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
ARK Invest chief executive Catherine Wood holds the view that every stock in the firm's disruptive innovation portfolio is an early-stage growth stock, and this includes Amazon - a firm approaching US$600 billion market capitalisation. "The way we know ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
Australians all let us rejoice and have ourselves a merry little Christmas! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report shows a sharp jump in employment in November no matter how it's measured. Look at the seasonally adjusted estimates ...

HNWI financial advice demand falls: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
New research from Investment Trends found there are less high-net-wealth investors using financial advisers compared to five years ago. The use of financial advice among high-net-worth investors (HNWI) has fallen to a five-year low, according to the ...

Government expert panel hands down proposed education standards for existing advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
Under the proposed standards released today by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, all existing advisers will be required to make a choice between several different education pathways -and some of their current qualifications may fail ...