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Financial planning pioneer to speak at FPA Congress

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
Mitch Anthony, who pioneered life-centered financial advice, will address the annual FPA Congress next week. He spoke to Financial Standard about what advisers can expect from his session. Mitch Anthony has been a thought leader in financial planning ...

Best of times, worst of times for advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
At a roundtable yesterday talk turned to the current state of the financial advice industry and the opportunities that exist alongside the challenges. Stephen Miller, adviser at GSFM, pointed out: "The whole regulatory landscape as a consequence of ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... affected - are inhibiting companies' capital spending, notwithstanding low and lowered interest rates (with renewed central bank balance sheet expansion to boot), which have reduced the hurdle rates on planned investments. OECD figures show G7 capital ...

Fossil fuel exposures climb at UniSuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
... in fossil fuels. The fund has holdings in Woodside Petroleum, Rio Tinto, BHP, South32, Santos, Origin Energy and Macquarie Bank among others. During the year to June end, it added TC Energy and APA Group to its holdings. UniSuper said its exposure to ...

Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... and controls on the products and channels offered as part of that relationship," the regulator said. It also alleges the bank failed to report over 19.5 million International Funds Transfer Instructions to AUSTRAC over a five year period. The regulator ...

Three advisers cop ASIC bans

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... Financial Planners, until September end when her licence ceased. Prior to this, she spent seven years at National Australia Bank, according to ASIC's Financial Adviser Register. In an order made on November 8, ASIC banned Peter Jianchao Xu, who was most ...

New operations chief at ME Bank

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
ME Bank has announced the appointment of a new chief operating officer. Rosanna Fornarino steps into the role, where she will oversee more than 500 staff and be responsible for customer service and process efficiency. Fornarino joins ME with 25 years ...

Chief economist update: Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
Over the past few months, I've been singing sad songs about the Australian economy and the need for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Morrison government to do more to reverse the slowing momentum in economic activity in this 'Lucky ...

NAB accused of greenwashing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
National Australia Bank has been accused in no uncertain terms of greenwashing. Activist group Market Forces said NAB's new climate policy, released as part of its latest Sustainability Report, is "little more than greenwash and a recipe for climate ...

APRA to take transparent approach

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... public about APRA's work. APRA said its new "more transparent approach" builds on the Prudential Inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the results of the self-assessments APRA requested from a series of large financial institutions following ...