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No single solution for advice: CFA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... financial advice. The institute is calling for conflicted remuneration to be outlawed, alongside strengthening the best interest duty and ensuring advice remains independent. Additionally, it has called for the remuneration of advisers and senior executives ...

Advice and accounting align post-Royal Commission: CountPlus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... the Hayne Royal Commission, with just 41.2% of Australians surveyed believing an adviser will likely act in their best interest. Meanwhile, 82.3% of participants trust accountants to act in their best interest. CountPlus chief executive Matthew Rowe ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... yields in recent days has begun to re-flatten the yield curve. So much so that financial markets are betting that steady interest rates wouldn't be enough given recent developments in the Sino-US trade stoush and the financial markets' reaction ...

Advice practice supply outweighs demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... market since 2007, Radar Results said. "After the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) finished, finance became easy to secure, interest rates fell, sellers were hard to find, and buyers were forced to pay a high price multiple for an acquisition," the firm ...

ANZ provides update on wealth sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... subscribed by IOOF reduced from 14.4% per annum to 2% per annum as of May 11. ANZ agreed to transfer a partial economic interest of its pension and investments business and the legal ownership of its aligned dealer groups to IOOF in July last year. Under ...

CBA remediation bill crosses $2bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... Wisdom, Count Financial or CFP Pathway licensees. Of this, $374 million is in customer refunds (including $123 million in interest payments) and $160 million is in program costs. The numbers assume a refund rate of 24% excluding interest. Meanwhile ...

Call for super funds to divest gambling interests

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
Australian Ethical has launched a new campaign to try to prompt Australians to consider whether they like the idea of their superannuation savings funding the gambling industry. Australian Ethical research found some of Australia's largest super ...

Industry fund dips toes in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... It has trimmed its US and Aussie equities exposures because it believes valuations are over-heated by artificially low interest rates. Its bond option is now the top performer on SelectingSuper personal super performance tables to March 13, with a 6.5% ...

Insurtechs improve life insurance inefficiencies: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
Life insurers are ramping up efforts to improve pricing and underwriting efficiencies with the help of startups to make it possible, a new insurtech study shows. The second annual EY and Insurtech Australia report found almost three-in-four (72%) insurtechs ...

Chief economist update: Same challenges, differing reactions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... from 1.8% in March 2019 to 1.4% by March next year. This compares with the bank's February prediction for steady interest rates (at 1.8%) before it's lifted to 2% in March 2021. Just like its Australian counterpart, the slowdown in global growth ...