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NULIS names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
NULIS Nominees has appointed a new chair, replacing Nicole Smith, who is due to appear before the financial services Royal Commission this week. According to the latest NULIS Nominees Executive Officer Disclosure, Peter Promnitz was appointed as chair ...

Equity Trustees responds to GAM suspension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
Equity Trustees halted applications into and redemptions from two GAM Investments funds following the suspension of the global manager's fixed income investment director. In a letter to unitholders, Equity Trustees - as responsible entity for the ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
If all goes according to expectations, today's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Board meeting will mark one-month and two years (25 months) that the country's cash rate had been stuck at a record low 1.50%, and the longest stretch of unchanged ...

Royal Commission revisits fees for no service

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Superannuation funds are coming clean about charging members advice fees in return for no services well before the financial services Royal Commission kicks into its latest round of public hearings. In the Royal Commission's fifth round, which kicked ...

Productivity Commission proposes more changes to financial advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The financial advice industry is bracing itself for more proposed changes to approved product lists (APLs), remuneration and terminology following the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the state of competition in Australia's financial system. ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Just in time for tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting, ME Bank published the results of the 14th survey of its "Household Financial Comfort Report", taken last June. "The ME Household Financial Comfort Report provides ...

Super funds suit up for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
The financial services Royal Commission will put Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system under the spotlight over the next two weeks and legal experts say a key question is whether conflicts of interest are influencing super funds and letting ...

ASIC identifies potential risks in ETP market

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
ASIC has identified three potential risks in the $40 billion market for exchange-traded products, following a review triggered by SMSFs and retail investors' growing investment in the vehicles. The three risks in the ETP markets were: temporary widening ...

Aurora takes acquisition bid to Federal Court

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
Aurora Funds Management will take its acquisition bid for Molopo Energy to the Federal Court of Australia after the Takeovers Panel decided to put the brakes on the transaction. Aurora has applied for a judicial review of the panel's decision, which ...

Chief economist update: Heaven can wait but the BOE couldn't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... over recent years." True that. The unemployment rate in the UK had remained at 42-year low since the start of 2018 up to May (the latest available). Even better this low rate of joblessness comes amid the labour force participation rate reaching a record ...