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Former Morgan Stanley chief to join Westpac board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... means that, amongst other capabilities, she will bring valuable insights about how businesses can respond to digital disruption," "Steve is a career banker with extensive investment banking and financial services experience."

Hayne stops short of dismantling vertical integration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... the forced separation of financial advice and those who sell and manufacture financial products "involved significant disruption" to the industry and the financial services industry more broadly. This is despite Hayne recognising that conflicts of interest ...

Grandfathered commissions to be banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... influence of the adviser's personal financial advantage," Hayne said. Generalised fears of unintended consequences and disruption should not be heeded, he added. "If an exception to the rules prohibiting grandfathered commissions is to be preserved ...

Super pool ripe for adviser picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... a matter of time before there are renewed calls to ban insurance commissions altogether," the paper reads. "Current disruption and change is an opportunity for advisers to refresh their business models including their client acquisition strategy, pricing ...

Labor franking credit changes fair but not the best: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... protect SMSF members from the impact of removing refundable franking credits and, over time, is likely to exacerbate the disruption to tax neutrality. "The guarantee will apply only to an SMSF if one or more members of the fund were receiving a Centrelink ...

Blue Sky names new chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... director at Hastings Funds Management from 2011 to 2017. "Andrew has deep experience of stewarding companies through disruption and transformation. He also has considerable skills in business strategy, financial oversight, risk management and compliance ...

Hedge funds fall out of favour with instos: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
New EY research shows investors are turning away from hedge funds and looking to private equity assets to uphold their alternatives portfolio. While hedge funds currently have the lion's share (40%) of institutional investors' alternatives portfolios ...

Banks must reshape to survive compliance and technology crunches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... Royal Commission, regulatory pressures and a rapidly evolving competitive environment all pointing to ongoing sector disruption," Dring said. "Unsurprisingly, slowing revenue and upward cost pressures have seen cost-to-income ratios tick up (to an average ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... 15.3% in the year to August. However, financial markets consider this as a temporary slowdown that's caused by the disruption to businesses and consumer activity by the natural disasters that hit the country in recent months. All up, expect to read ...

Digital custody evolutionary, not revolutionary: SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... form where we are today into a fully decentralised kind of environment is just too big," Roncone said. "The level of disruption would be enormous but more importantly we are not convinced that the financial industry is ready for such a step, while at ...