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Advisers embrace new education regime

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
Financial advisers have wasted no time in readying themselves for the future following the passing of the professional standards legislation earlier this month. Mentor Education saw an immediate surge in enrolments in its programs after the Corporations ...

Impact Investing Australia chief to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2017
... focus shift to driving the implementation of Impact Capital Australia and achieving sustainability for the Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant. "Since we launched the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing's strategy to catalyse impact investing ...

Unadvised SMSFs ripe for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... second biggest driver here is the desire for specialist advice and that's what you do," Dunn told delegates. "So, are you ready? That's the million-dollar question. Right now, is the opportunity for you to sit down and assess where you are so you can ...

Couples can benefit more than singles in SMSFs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
This Valentine's Day, as you stare across the table at your loved one, you may want to ask if they're ready to join you in a self-managed superannuation fund. It may not sound as exciting as buying a house together or signing up for a joint bank account ...

APRA urges banks to raise capital

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... including by encouraging banks to strengthen their capital position. "Financial regulatory authorities would need to stand ready to intensify targeted prudential measures, if lending or house price growth were to re-accelerate, while advancing the implementation ...

Half of Australian households will be retire ready

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... Australian households are expected to have enough saved for a comfortable retirement, according to the latest CommBank Retire Ready Index. The report, which bases their comfortable retirement standard on the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

Ignition Wealth appoints head of advice

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... Ignition Wealth XPLAN support and consultancy service will help advice practices and financial services providers to get robo-ready without need to change the way they do business today." Ignition Wealth chief executive Mark Fordree said: "XPLAN is the ...

Will the real Trump please stand up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
Are you ready to say 'President Trump' out loud? Like him or loathe him, investors are eager to meet the president behind the publicity hound. Their savings depend on it. On the eve of his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, many ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... treasury yields, and signs the return of inflation to central bank targets - which they acknowledge is "heating up but not ready to boil over." With a view towards diversification, Craig directs investors to emerging markets, where growth has been aided ...

2017 set for private equity buyout record

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 JAN 2017
... continuation of the levels of activity in the buyout and exit markets recorded in the past few years...There is a lot of capital ready to be put to work, and activity is likely to be correspondingly strong," Elvin said. "Preqin's most recent surveys ...