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Investec acquires $38.9m Sydney office building

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... to benefit from the construction of the North West Rail Link, due for completion in 2018. The property is 85% leased with scope to deliver additional income to the fund through active leasing of the vacant space. The annualised property yield on a fully ...

CFA appoints Australia head of advocacy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... Commonwealth Bank, HSBC, Swiss Re, APRA and Perpetual. "Appointing a senior advocate for Australia and New Zealand gives us more scope to focus on important issues in our markets and to provide leadership around solutions," CFA Society Sydney president ...

Advisers see regulated robo-advice opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... Generation Z is suited to robo-advice." At the same time, over half of respondents (52%) felt that ASIC should limit the scope of advice this type of software could provide, suggesting there is a lingering perception that robo-advice presents a threat ...

Productivity Commission to explore financial services exports

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... 70% of the Australian economy, they represent only 20% of Australia's total exports. The government noted that there is scope to reduce some of the regulation and barriers to entry that prohibit growth of service industries overseas. "Australian businesses ...

Westpac, Count on ASIC radar over complex product advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... had not adequately disclosed the risks, features or costs of the products recommended. For HSBC, ASIC found that where the scope of advice was restricted to a single HSBC structured product, advisers had obtained little or no information about clients' ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... would keep Indian inflation low - the RBI now expects inflation to be below its 6% target set for 2016 - giving it more scope to lower interest rates some more. You could almost taste this optimism in the 30% jump in the Sensex-30 index last year and ...

Super fund mergers could risk member attrition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... "However the benefits to members need to be thoughtfully communicated with a particular focus on economies of scale and scope," Turnbull added. Competitively high investment return ranked highest among factors that members consider most important when ...

Independent expert lists CBA compensation challenges

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014
... said. Challenges include reaching out to all eligible customers and raising their awareness of its existence; verifying the scope, type and timing of financial advice provided to customers or retrieving records and information required to assess a customer's ...

Sally Loane new CEO of the Financial Services Council

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... larger than mining and manufacturing - financial services is integral to Australia's economic growth. There is tremendous scope to cement financial services as an industry in its own right." "Building trust and confidence in financial services will be ...

APRA releases draft RSE fraud management guide

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... corruption and bribery and will address how fraud risks interact with fund investment operations. Reinforcing this broadening scope of risk management APRA said the updated framework should also address how the framework will be communicated and how ...