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Planners ready for Trowbridge

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... financial planners expecting standalone insurance advice to become less profitable," said Investment Trends senior analyst King Loong Choi. "But, as they have proven with FoFA, Australian financial planners are very good at adapting to change, and many ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Sydney fintech hub Stone and Chalk is aiming for Australia's entrepreneurs, technologists, scientists and mathematicians to receive the same status and respect as the country's sporting heroes. At the colourful Stone and Chalk official opening last ...

ACSI calls for better company disclosure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) believes more progress is needed to embed better anti-corruption and bribery disclosures in major Australian companies. ACSI says while there has been a general improvement in disclosure quality ...

Planners continue insurer switches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... past year. Yet on average, planners are now using 3.9 insurers each - up from 3.7 in 2014. Investment Trends senior analyst, King Loong Choi, said a focus on improving underwriting by some insurers over the last year has made it "an essential component ...

IRESS sees profit in wealth management

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Financial planning software provider IRESS has recorded a 10% profit increase in its Australia and New Zealand wealth management division over the past six months. The half-year result reflects continued demand in the wealth management segment with ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Following on from China's "rule of three", the ECB has three of its own. The minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 15-16 July meeting revealed the three things that are keeping the governing council members awake at night - Greece, China and ...

FSC awards industry execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... superannuation program manager Matthew Thomas, Commonwealth Bank's Geoff Ferguson, Suncorp Life chief executive Geoff Summerhayes, King & Wood Mallesons partner Richard Snowden and Perpetual general manager of native title trusts and investments Nathan ...

Big four prepared for APRA capital adequacy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... "largely as expected following the Financial Services Inquiry and is manageable." Finally, Westpac chief financial officer Peter King said that Westpac is "well-placed for this change" and that the bank had already "taken a number of significant steps ...

Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... later," QIC Global Liquid Strategies (GLS) managing director Susan Buckley said. To director of research strategies Katrina King, "rising inflation should not be a source of alarm - we are looking at moderate levels that we believe offer return opportunities ...