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IPA appoints new president

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... Leegel as the outgoing President for all of her work and efforts over the past two years. We have made significant improvements and Wendy has played a large role in guiding the maturity of our governance."

Future of advice is bionic, not robo

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... future of financial advice will not be dominated by robo advisers but instead will be bionic, empowered by continual improvements to technology. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, Colonial First State general manager products and investments Peter ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... November, up from 53.3 in the previous month and beating market expectations for an unchanged 53.3 reading, driven by improvements in activity in both the manufacturing and services sector. The flash estimate of the manufacturing PMI rose to 53.7 in ...

JPMorgan Chase to pay bribery fines

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... unacceptable. We stopped the hiring program in 2013 and took action against the individuals involved. We have also made improvements to our hiring procedures, and reinforced the high standards of conduct expected of our people. Our long-term commitment ...

Reversionary pension and CGT changes supported

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... strategies where necessary as the 1 July 2017 start date for most of the superannuation changes looms," Slattery said. "Improvements such as allowing recipients of reversionary pensions 12 months rather than the originally proposed six months to adjust ...

ANZ improves OneCare for advisers

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... OneCare as part of the bank's "strengthened commitment" to financial advisers. OneCare will offer adviser and client improvements through three key updates including greater funding flexibility, improved client experience and underwriting streamlining ...

New life insurance standards for super

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... and monitoring to enhance consumer protections. The Code is expected to be finalised prior to the end of 2017, with improvements to industry practice to be progressively delivered throughout 2017. The group will build on the Group Insurance Statement ...

CBA responds to systemic advice failures

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... the future. In a statement CBA said: "As part of CFPL's long-term business transformation, we have made significant improvements, including to our systems, processes, supervision and training. "In addition, following the Future of Financial Advice reforms ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... rally in commodity prices (+0.51ppts); a modest recovery in US industrial production (+0.40ppts) and globally-driven improvements in financial conditions reflected in the sharemarket (+0.20ppts) and the yield spread (+10ppts) components". In addition ...

Institutions grappling with risk culture

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... paper released yesterday, APRA said the inability of institutions to communicate their risk management processes and improvements showed it was critical for the conversation on risk culture to continue. APRA highlighted that sound risk culture could ...