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What SMSFs will look like in 2030

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
A panel discussion at the SMSF Association Conference has sought to predict what the SMSF industry will look like in 10 years' time, with the issue of retirement front and centre. Rice Warner executive director Michael Rice, Challenger chair of retirement ...

Custodial excellence recognised

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... in custodial services yesterday, at the 2020 installment of its annual ACSA Awards during the Investment Operations Conference in Sydney. The association recognised HSBC regulatory compliance manager Siv Vijayanathan, and JP Morgan vice president of ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... the rapidly spreading virus. "As of today, the big short-term risk would be the coronavirus," Costello told a press conference in Melbourne. "We don't know how far that will spread, we don't know what it will do to the tourism industry; we don't ...

NGS Super sets up impact committee

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... said the idea was sparked at a Women In Super breakfast at Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference, where a speaker spoke on the topic. "About 20 of our staff were interested and from that we chose a committee of about nine ...

Viridian opens new offices

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... were pretty much built around the people who have joined Viridian. Instead of asking them to relocate, travel or video conference with their clients, we decided to open offices where they were domiciled," Calder told Financial Standard. Before onboarding ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... that. Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney cares. In his speech at the BOE's Future of Inflation Targeting Conference in London, Carney remarked: "The economy has been sluggish, slack has been growing, and inflation is below target. Much hinges ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... shoot down. 8. Government extends FASEA deadline At the close of the Association of Financial Advisers' national conference in August, the announcement that many advisers had been waiting for finally came - the deadline to meet new education standards ...

Tech to topple banking: RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... according to the RBA's head of financial stability Jonathan Kearns, who on Monday at the Australasian Finance and Banking Conference in Sydney, argued banks need to evolve lest they topple to 'big tech' data companies. The main risk to banks is the seemingly ...

No joy in the advice world this Christmas

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... commissions being wound up, business values being downgraded and widespread licensee consolidation. "The message from the conference was that any one of these conditions are red flags that the mental health of a financial adviser and small business owner ...

Dealer group boosts compliance team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
A privately-owned dealer group has strengthened its compliance capabilities with a hire from MLC Wealth. Lifespan Financial Planning has appointed Anna Mirzoyan to the newly created role of compliance and technical officer. In her new role, Mirzoyan ...