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Degrees don't ensure good financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
The FSI recommendation for advisers to hold a "relevant tertiary degree" in order to raise minimum competency standards will not ensure good advice and may drive established advisers out of the system, according to Australian Institute of Company Directors ...

ASX: The people's platform

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
The ASX's drive into wealth management has been so successful it is now in effect Australia's seventh largest wealth management platform. Research by Rainmaker released earlier this year revealed that the combined funds under administration (FUA) in ...

PMI surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
Markit Economics' flash PMI (purchasing managers' index) data dump yesterday gives us the lay of the land for first quarter economy and beyond. While it's tempting to correlate these PMI readings with the effectiveness (or not) of the monetary policy ...

Life cover shifting to younger, lower-income households

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Appetite for life insurance is growing in younger, lower-income households and dropping in older, more affluent demographic groups. This is the conclusion of TAL's 2015 Australian Financial Protection Index, based on an online survey of 1,266 Australians ...

Another cut's in the mail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Disappointment over the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision not to cut interest rates at its 3 March Board meeting reversed the Australian equity market's sharp uptrend that started in the middle of January. The All Ords dropped from a high of ...

Finance dominates top Australian companies list

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Finance, superannuation and insurance companies continue to feature prominently in IBISWorld's Top 1000 Australian companies report. Aside from the big four banks, which retain their place in the top 10, there were a further 134 financial and insurance ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Call it what you will -- 'patient panic' or 'patient party' - the fact is all and sundry dropped what they were doing to hear (or not hear), read (or not read) the word 'patient' from the Fed. It's there no more... with "not impatient" taking over its ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Former Platinum deputy chief investment officer Jacob Mitchell has launched a new high conviction global equity boutique called Antipodes Global Investment Partners, three months after resigning from star manager Kerr Neilson's firm. Mitchell and his ...

Advisers need to provide multi-pronged services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Cost is a prohibitive factor for many Australians in taking up comprehensive financial advice, but they are happy to transition from lower-priced discrete advice to a holistic service over time. This is the key finding of Investment Trends' 2014 Advice ...