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ASX IT upgrade to boost productivity 80pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... Straight Through Processing (STP) and increasing the level of automation across its processes for handling securities reference data and entity data. A statement released by the ASX and the technology service provider GoldenSource said the upgrade will ...

APRA releases draft RSE fraud management guide

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... internally and externally, its approach to managing fraud risk. This may include, for example, relevant policies by reference, such as an employee code of conduct, fitness and propriety policy or whistleblowing policy," noted the consultation paper. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to again open lower after Wall Street lost more than one per cent following mixed US economic data. At 0815 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was down 35 points at 5,287. Locally, in economic ...

Netwealth brings portfolio management tool in-house

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Netwealth has fully integrated the SMART portfolio management tool into its platform to improve user experience and client access to information. SMART was previously outsourced, and is a real time modelling and rebalancing system which provides advisers ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... committee is not expecting to report to the Senate until the first sitting day of July 2015. According to the terms of reference, the inquiry will specifically look at the current level of protections for financial advice consumers in the context of ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... terms, Mining, Manufacturing and Wholesale trade inventories each experienced a build up in the June quarter 2014". Cross reference this statement with the "Production Chain Volume Measures" table on page 5 of the National Accounts report and you'll ...

Maurice Blackburn mulls class action against Macquarie

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) compensation of financial advice clients. "This scheme poses the same problems: there is no reference to handing over client files, it doesn't say if interviews [with clients] will be conducted and clients will have access to ...

Licensee transparency far more urgent than advice register

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Establishing a clear and transparent standard for licensees to provide references when an adviser leaves a dealer group is more urgent than the government's advice register, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive Brad Fox said. ...

Portfolio disclosure a 'data dump' on consumers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... "Sunshine is the best form of disinfectant," he said, arguing that transparency came before affordability in the terms of reference for the Cooper Review. Arguing with Bragg, JP Morgan's David Braga compared reporting on portfolio holdings to reporting ...

RBS enters enforceable undertaking

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... Commission (CFTC) Orders. "RBS is also required to undertake certain remedial measures with respect to its trading in Reference Bank Bills. An Independent Compliance Expert will be required to review and report on RBS's compliance with the EU in respect ...