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AFA award shines spotlight on women in financial advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... the award for the last six years, providing a platform for female advisers to showcase their skills and expertise in the field. It was a tight contest. Other finalists included Wealth Planning Partners director and financial adviser Amanda Cassar, a ...

CBA innovates to help customers avoid late fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
The Commonwealth Bank has launched two new bill paying solutions, available via its CommBank app and NetBank. The 'Better Bill Experience' and 'Photo-a-bill' features went live today as a means of assisting customers in managing their bills and avoiding ...

Senior staff changes at RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
The Reserve Bank of Australia is restructuring, seeing a number of internal moves and one retirement. Current assistant governor, economic, Christopher Kent has been appointed assistant governor, financial markets; a role made vacant following Guy Debelle's ...

Saxo launches digital bond trading solution

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... efficient, cheaper and digitised solution, effectively disrupting traditional financial services and leveling the playing field," Smoker said. Under the new online trading solution, each bond order will be directed to an optimised dealer auction which ...

Sowerby to support Queensland startup drive in new role

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... businesses and jobs." An evaluation panel commissioned by the Queensland Government selected Sowerby for the role from a field of candidates. "Mark's credentials as a global alternative investment manager are beyond reproach," said evaluation panel member ...

Social benefit bond returns for NGS Super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... life of the bond. NSW Minister for Family and Community Services, Brad Hazzard said: "This is a great achievement in the field of social impact investment and shows that by bringing together the expertise of the not-for-profit sector and capital from ...

Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... Lowenstein said. "Morphic explores an all cap, all country universe of investable opportunities, which is a pretty wide field of securities. It is therefore important that we are able to empirically separate hype from real change, and thus find those ...

ASIC compensation plummets despite surveillance success

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... outcomes highlighted in this report reflect ASIC's unwavering commitment to ensuring Australia's markets remain a level playing field for all investors," ASIC commissioner Cathie Armour said. ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer added: "ASIC is working hard ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
Another stimulus package for Japan Japan has announced a stimulus package containing a raft of infrastructure and welfare measures in yet another attempt to jolt the nation's economy back to life. The package, headlined at A$350 billion if you include ...

Competition not super's silver bullet: PC

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... criteria, current policy settings are taken as a 'system given' to ensure our assessment focusses on what is within the system's field of influence," Chester said. Competition in the context of member benefits hints the Commission's review will likely ...