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Thought leadership: Building portfolios for market crises

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Financial Standard's latest roundtable event turned attention to how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises. SQM Research head of research Robert da Silva says behavioural insights over ...

ASIC tightens grip on ICO issuers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... non-compliant offers. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is sending enquiries to ICO issuers and their advisers whose conduct or statements may be misleading to investors. As a result, some issuers have halted their ICOs or promised ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... deal with complaints about financial firms including banks, credit providers, insurance companies and brokers, financial advisers, managed investment schemes and superannuation trustees." "It will operate significantly higher monetary and compensation ...

Uncertainty abounds future of advice regulation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... Rowena Orr said the testimonies provided by the Financial Planning Association of Australia, the Association of Financial Advisers and ASIC gave rise to numerous questions around the adequacy of existing laws and policies. It also raised concerns around ...

Royal Commission to drive independent advice market: GlobalData

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... financial advice; even the demographics not typically drawn to independent advice are more likely to turn towards independent advisers when they learn their bank might have sold them products that are not in their best interest, GlobalData wealth management ...

RC suggests separating platforms and advice licensees

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... platforms." She argued that if there were a separation between platform operators and advice licensees, it would follow that advisers - acting in their clients' best interests - would "place pressure on the platform operators to charge competitive fees ...

Sixty per cent of FPA members hold degree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... on Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority proposals which aim to increase education standards for financial advisers. So far members are not pleased. De Gori added the FPA would be "advocating for the study completed by these members to be ...

Brenner leaves AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... disappointed by the issues at hand and am particularly concerned for the impact they have had on our customers, employees, advisers and shareholders," Brenner said. "As chair, I am accountable for governance. I have always sought to act in the best interests ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... officer - consumer and wealth Andrew Hagger fronted the Royal Commission, whose line of questioning zeroed in on how NAB advisers witnessed client forms. 325 NAB staff, including 204 financial advisers, were involved in witnessing client forms incorrectly. ...

First Super to vote against AMP board

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... follow suit, with chief executive Bill Watson saying: "We call on other superannuation funds, fund managers and proxy advisers to follow the lead of ACSI and send a message to the industry that the types of practices perpetrated by AMP and recently uncovered ...