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OneVue launches new advice platform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
OneVue has launched its new financial advice platform, LUMINOUS. Built over 18 months, the platform as designed to be heavily customised to individual client preferences, to the extent of facilitating self-directed investors who may wish to "drop in ...

ASIC's robo-advice taskforce to monitor AFSLs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
ASIC's brand new robo-advice taskforce will monitor businesses that intend to provide digital advice. The regulator thinks that "the majority of digital advice initiatives will be proposed by existing licensees rather than start-up businesses." Another ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Western Asset Management chief investment officer Ken Leech believes the bond market will have reasonably low rates for longer than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal ...

SMSFs impacted by power of attorney rule changes

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Changes to the rules governing power of attorney in Victoria, which came into force on 1 September, will impact the way SMSF advisers service their clients. The new Powers of Attorney Act 2014 consolidates the enduring power of attorney and enduring ...

Midwinter gives Dover discount digital advice

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Midwinter has partnered with Dover Financial Advisers to offer competitive pricing for AdviceOS, its digital advice platform. As reported in Financial Standard in May, AdviceOS is a holistic digital advice solution, which enables clients of AFSLs to ...

Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
The Australian financial services industry has painted itself as only mildly innovative according to a study by National Australia Bank (NAB). About 39% of small-to-medium enterprises in finance have suggested there is a culture of innovation among ...

NZ Super weighs equity market capacity

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has provided an insight as to how it assesses the capacity of NZ equities managers considering the fund's significant allocation to the local share market. The Guardians of NZ Superannuation, the entity that manages ...

UK moves away from annuities: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Pension freedoms in the United Kingdom have created a "seismic movement" away from annuities according to UK-based financial researcher Defaqto. In its most recent white paper aimed at financial advisers working with retirement plans, Defaqto said that ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Another Monday, another sell, sell day. This time the media - social or otherwise - are calling the sharp drop in the Australian equities market yesterday a "Horror Monday". It wasn't as bloody as that "Bloody Monday", 24 August, when the benchmark ...

Sunsuper foresees independent director shift

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Sunsuper has appointed a former Queensland treasurer and a former Macquarie Bank executive director to its board, increasing the number of independent directors ahead of proposed federal government super board changes. Joining Sunsuper this month are ...