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Instos offer advice at a loss to drive product sales: EY

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Large financial institutions have undervalued advice for decades by offering it at a loss to lead clients into product sales, Ernst & Young (EY) have said in their submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). EY argued that decades old industry ...

FIIG to manage $50m bond issue for 360 Capital

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
360 Capital Group is the latest company to bring a corporate bond offering to the market with the help of FIIG Securities. The property investment and funds management group is looking to raise $50 million through a senior unsecured note offering though ...

Super fees drop as fund war rolls on

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
Superannuation fees have been at the centre of public debate since David Murray's Financial System Inquiry (FSI) flagged that there is little fee-based competition and that "fees appear high by international standards." But the Rainmaker 2014 Super ...

Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association urged the Financial System Inquiry to review the definition of 'financial product advice' in the Corporations Act and said that the current regime was "detrimental to innovation." In its second submission to inquiry ...

NAB launches online direct insurance product

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
National Australia Bank (NAB) has launched a life insurance product that consumers can apply for online. The NAB Essential Life protection can be applied for through a few simple steps and provides immediate cover to consumers. NAB retail wealth product ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has obtained the support from the Coalition to conduct a new Senate Economics Committee inquiry to scrutinise the financial services industry. The inquiry will continue the task of last year's Senate Economics Committee inquiry ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
In July, National Australia Bank announced to the ASX that it was "undertaking discussions with a number of Global Custody providers" over the future of its custody business, NAB Asset Servicing (NAS). While NAB described it as a "strategic partnering" ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Sixteen Australian super funds, including first-timer HOSTPLUS, have made it into Towers Watson's list of the 300 largest global pension funds, which was released today. However, the weakening Australian dollar saw most of the Australian funds fall ...

Activist Simon Sheikh launches fossil fuel free super fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Former leader of advocacy group GetUp and Australian Greens candidate Simon Sheikh has launched what he claims is Australia's first fossil fuel free superannuation fund. Sheikh said Future Super stemmed from what he perceived as growing frustration ...

Advisers boost practice profitability

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Financial advisers' effort to improve business efficiency in the context of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) has paid off, as new research shows that practice profitability has gone up in the last year. Financial planners are serving more clients ...