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Super changes increasing adviser workload: Financial Standard poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
Advisers' workload has somewhat increased since the superannuation changes took effect on July 1, Financial Standard's weekly poll reveals. Forty-four per cent of advisers are carrying a heavier workload, while one-in-five (19%) are still grappling ...

Advisers must provide more than financial health checks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... strategies are feasible. "New clients often turn up thinking we're only there to discuss how many zeroes they have in their bank accounts, or what hot new stocks they should be investing in. This means they can become quite surprised when we ask the ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... price index not the CPI. In the Fed's "Summary of Economic Projections" (latest release was in September), the US central bank prints point forecasts for "PCE inflation" and "Core PCE inflation". An article by the "Business Insider" published in mid-2014 ...

Colonial First State names new distribution head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
... billion in assets under management, has "achieved significant growth, scale and diversification" under CBA's ownership, the bank said, adding it will also consider a range of other options in the review.

Suncorp appoints new wealth and life intermediaries head in executive reshuffle

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
Suncorp has named a new head of wealth and life intermediaries. Dan Waller, who has been acting head since June, has now been appointed permanently to the role. He has more than 28 years' experience in the financial services industry, joining Asteron ...

ASIC chair nominee withdraws candidacy

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
... Suisse's Australian investment banking department in 2008. He joined from CBA, where he was general counsel and a member of the bank's executive committee. Prior to that, he was a partner at Freehills. ASIC was contacted for comment and said it was matter ...

Focusing on the bad to make it better

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
Financial advisers must shift their thinking on the least enjoyable aspects of what they do and instead consider their capacity for innovation. Speaking at the 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference today, Red Marker chief executive Matt Symons said industry ...

BlackRock boosts Australian distribution footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
BlackRock has made three senior hires to strengthen its client business team in Australia. Scarlett Dorney will join the Sydney office as a director of client business at the end of October, responsible for leading the multi-manager and institutional ...

Technology will shape financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
Financial advisers must challenge themselves to see where technology can add value to their business models if they wish to remain relevant in the coming years. That was the key theme of a presentation delivered by futurist Chris Riddell at the 2017 ...

New research director joins APP Securities

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
Following on from its partnership with Ignition Wealth, investment banking and stockbroking firm APP Securities has appointed a new research director to replace Russell Wright. David Fraser joins APP Securities from Shaw and Partners, where he was a ...