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Adviser banned for five years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
A financial adviser who cycled through seven AFSLs in nine years has been banned after ASIC found he provided poor SMSF advice and based insurance advice on the commission he'd receive. The five-year ban follows ASIC surveillance of advice provided ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... Those are just some of the considerations that both merging super funds and newer boutiques would have to make - driving interest in outsourced trading, he said. When asked whether outsourced trading poses any risks to the intellectual property of these ...

High Court rules against Fortescue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... market participants with intelligence about these markets." The judge added there is an important and weighty public interest in the provision of well-informed analysis and data by publications such as S&P and Argus. "The iron ore market is of enormous ...

Ignorance isn't bliss in super: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
The majority of Australians believed their super fund would protect their retirement savings in the event of a market downturn, according to new research coming out of Russell Investments. Surveying more than 3000 Australians in January this year, the ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... risk appetite. It's not difficult to understand why," he said. "Over the years, these portfolios have switched from low interest-bearing government bonds to infrastructure, credit and property in the belief these assets would act as defensive proxies ...

VFMC appoints head of equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... external portfolios in equities." Lingaretnam has worked at Macquarie Bank, Aviva, IOOF, Lonsec, across equities, fixed interest and derivatives. VFMC was advised by Kaizen Recruitment on the external hire.

FASEA extension en route

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
The government's move to extend the ban on conflicted remuneration to listed investment companies and trusts is expected to provide financial advisers with some much needed certainty. Following Treasury consultation, the government made the decision ...

Switching prompts fund to alter allocations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
Qantas Super has altered asset allocations across all its investment options in response to COVID-19, market volatility and a high number of members switching options. The $8.5 billion corporate superannuation fund said that the changes would improve ...

House prices expected to tumble

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... housing prices is difficult at the best of times, but at the moment it is particularly challenging," HSBC said. "Although interest rates are at record lows, which should support housing prices, at the same time, the COVID-19 economic shock, stalled migration ...

New ETFs see success as UBS suspends funds

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... Van Eck's Emerging Income Opportunities Active ETF on February 13. ETF securities chief executive Kris Walesby said the interest in these new products reflect investor's confidence in the asset class, despite COVID-19 spurred volatility and disruption. ...