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IRESS and Class Super partner to target SMSF accountants

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
A partnership between IRESS and Class Super will allow XPLAN and Class users to access up-to-date member and investment information on both platforms. The information available includes fund details, member details and contribution limits. A range of ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
What had been a mathematically-derived, guessed at and/or expected a,-1 trillion expansion in the European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet has just become fact - ECB President Mario Draghi promised - and it's unanimous. Most would have probably read ...

BNP Paribas top custodian for client satisfaction

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
BNP Paribas has emerged as the top Australian custodian when it comes to client satisfaction, beating the likes of Citi, J.P. Morgan and NAB Asset Servicing (NAS), in the Global Custodian Agent Banks in Major Markets Survey 2014. The survey asked the ...

Adviser Ratings attracts mostly positive reviews

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
Adviser Ratings has seen 850 advisers signing up three weeks after launching, with most profiles attracting positive reviews from clients. "I like him because he doesn't come over as 'pushy'," one client wrote in a Sydney-based adviser profile. "We ...

Sophisticated investor register launched

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
A new online investor registry, aimed at modernising the compliance process for certifying sophisticated and wholesale investors, has been launched by Sophisticated Access (SA). The real-time registry, known as Cygura, is for investors and their accountants ...

100% steady on the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
It's that time of the year again folks, the first Tuesday of November, when the "Race that Stops the Nation' - the Melbourne Cup - meets with the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy decision. I have lived in Australia (and Melbourne, at ...

CBA appoints litigators as customer advocates

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has appointed three law firms as independent customer advocates for its Open Advice Review compensation program. Maurice Blackburn, Shine Lawyers and Slater and Gordon have been appointed to support individual customers through ...

APRA releases group insurance best practice guide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the final prudential practice guidelines providing guidance on good practices for insurers in relation to group insurance arrangements. The 12-page document, known as LPG 270, gives ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
It's a wrap! QE is. Looking at Wall Street's performance overnight - the Dow and the S&P 500 up more than 1.0%, the Nasdaq up nearly 2.0% (rounded) and the Russell 2000 up nearly 3.0% (rounded) - the men and women at the Fed must be patting each other's ...

Energy Super CEO explains disclosure decision

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Energy Super's decision to publicly disclose the majority of its holdings on its website represents a shift in focus onto the growing cohort of members who want to know what their money is doing, according to the fund's chief executive Robyn Petrou. ...