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FASEA extension hits snag

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... Fox. "Any threat to the extension being achieved this year makes the timeline now available to stockbrokers to book a test, study a for a test and find a place in limited FASEA exam sittings extremely challenging." Senator Catryna Bilyk also slammed ...

US GDP to contract 6.5%: Fed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
The US Federal Reserve has projected rates will remain near zero through 2022 and GDP will contract 6.5% as a result of COVID-19. The Fed also pledged to maintain at least the current pace of asset purchases, which is around US$80 billion per month. ...

Aussie financial firms struggle to manage risk: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... than 70 Australian senior risk executives from the major banks, insurers and wealth managers participated in the global study from Accenture, which found that only 8% of those surveyed believe they are fully capable of assessing the risks of adopting ...

CBA coughs up $5m over RC case study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
ASIC has trumped the Commonwealth Bank for failures in its AgriAdvantage Plus Package, with the Federal Court of Australia ordering the bank to cough up a $5 million penalty. On Friday, the Court found that the bank had breached the ASIC Act and Corporations ...

Advice job market not all doom and gloom

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... employers amid upheaval in the industry. One is that they want clearly defined career pathways to see the benefits of the extra study they now have to do under the FASEA requirements. Of course, attractive base remuneration and bonus structures and the ...

Impact investing set to skyrocket: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... records on social issues, environmental sustainability and good governance are more resilient to COVID market turbulence, this study shows a market delivering strong financial returns, while also positively impacting the lives of tens of thousands of ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
" You're simply the best Better than all the rest Better than anyone Anyone I've ever met..." A great many, if not all Australians, would have had this Tina Turner classic playing in their heads listening to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor ...

Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... would overtake SMSFs as the biggest grouping, just as they had moved ahead of retail funds in the first three years of this study. "But given the particular challenges now facing the industry funds - in particular resulting from allocations to illiquid ...

ASIC bans RC case study adviser

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
A former Millennium3 adviser whose advice was cited as a case study during the Royal Commission is set to appeal a 10-year ban handed down by ASIC. ASIC has banned Adelaide-based adviser Christopher Norman Harris from providing financial services for ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
A new study argues that separately managed accounts with high active shares and a history of outperformance can be expected to continue delivering in the future. Active share, which was introduced by Cremers and Petajisto in 2009, is calculated as the ...