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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 ...

Investment approaches in change phase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... the end of 2019, before the effects of the pandemic reached Australian shores, Willis Towers Watson and TCorp conducted a study into current and future allocation practices, finding that investment approaches were in a phase of change. Asset owners ...

Australians hate complexity, not annuities: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... product in the market simply by default or out of ignorance, rather than actual preference." When the researchers asked study participants to choose between two annuity products though, they ran into problems. The consumers found the choice over complicated ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... market, as all provide basic protections for investors, it said. Morningstar head of policy research and co-author of the study Aron Szapiro said the world's financial leaders had been slow in their implementation of effective regulatory reform. "When ...