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Fatigue and profit-based incentives driving risk culture

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Unreasonable levels of work and a need for greater automation of processes could be to blame for heightened risk culture in the financial services sector, according to FINSIA. The industry body's analyses of a study conducted by Macquarie University ...

Aura appoints new head of distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
Having recently boosted its financial planning network through an acquisition, Aura Group is also welcoming a new head of distribution. Chris Faddy joined Aura in May from Vantage Point Asset Management, where he was head of distribution and client ...

Less room for mid-tier asset managers: Stern

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
Standard Life Investments head of multi-asset and macro investing, Guy Stern, believes the asset management industry will soon stratify into trillion-dollar players and boutiques - with not much room for a middle ground. Speaking to Financial Standard ...

New Zealand advice industry to be overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
The New Zealand government is looking to remove the distinction between class and personal advice, as well as allow the provision of digital advice as it seeks to overhaul the country's regulatory regime for financial advisers. The Financial Services ...

Intiger seeks global scale with leadership change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
A management reshuffle at financial planning software provider Intiger Group will see its managing director renew focus on the global business' expansion plans. Following the successful launch of its BOOM platform, Intiger has announced that founder ...

Inflation: Cost-pushed and demand-pulled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
If anything, the National Australia Bank's July business survey added credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's optimistic take on the outlook for economic activity in the country, but not inflation which it expects "to pick up gradually as the economy ...

IOOF grows against the grain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
IOOF credited the onboarding of about 50 advisers last financial year as a driving force behind its 131% increase in advice net flows. In what IOOF described as "counter to industry trend", its growing adviser numbers - including the 33 that joined ...

CBA blames reporting failure on software error

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
The Commonwealth Bank says its failure to notify AUSTRAC of more than 53,000 large cash deposits in its intelligent deposit machines was caused by a software error which was not discovered for more than two years. In a public statement CBA outlined ...

Advice too pricey for poor Australians

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
About 75% of Australians have not engaged a financial adviser in the last five years, with many believing it's too expensive and they don't earn enough to justify doing so. The majority of Australians who did visit a financial adviser in the last five ...

Wealth begins its blockchain reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
Ambitious financial services firms are driving Australia's global leadership in the development of blockchain technology, which is already delivering productivity and innovation benefits to the nation's trillion-dollar wealth industry. BNP Paribas Securities ...