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FASEA unclear why advisers are quitting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield has said it is outside the authority's remit to look into why financial advisers are exiting the industry in droves. Rainmaker analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register indicates that the register has ...

Super not sacred: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... to be made directly into them (say above age 65) and to transfer them directly from one fund to another," Rice said. "Of course, if accumulation and pension earnings were both taxed at the same rate, you would only ever need to hold one account. "Before ...

Retirement income covenant delayed

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... super funds should continue to work on retirement income strategies even though the covenant still needs development. "Of course, there is nothing stopping funds and their trustees from developing retirement income strategies now and we'd encourage them ...

Active versus passive: The debate continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... it's an ocean, and there are plenty of places we can go and perform really well and have a great, thriving business." Of course, there is an inherent difference between investing in equities and another asset class like fixed income. Mihkel Kase ...

Advisers involved in ERS scams: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... not specify whether action has been taken against any registered financial advisers in relation to these matters. "In the course of our work, and in cooperation with the ATO, we identified entities (financial advisers, trustees and fund promoters) who ...

Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... industry funds, not-for-profit funds still dominate, with double the funds under management of SMSFs. "For this to change course means the impact of COVID-19 is so extreme it's unwinding 15 years of trend momentum," Dunnin said. "If this were to be the ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... we're considering. We think we have a good toolkit, and that's the one we'll be using." Its biggest fan, of course, is none other than US President Donald Trump, who, only a day before, again took to Twitter, tweeting "as long as other countries ...

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... control the economic impact, it can be reasonably expected that more and more of them will take a dramatic change of policy course and take rates to below zero - like their peers in Europe and Japan." Green said there is legitimate debate about the efficacy ...

Advisers split on COVID-19 opportunity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... performance dominated conversations. However, almost 61% of advisers said they'd been discussing the importance of staying the course with clients. Rounding out the top three topics between advisers and clients were the decisions of the government and ...

Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... greater understanding and clarity of policy responses beyond what has been rolled out to stabilise markets," they note. "Of course, we also need greater clarity on matters related to COVID-19, which, in part, means a pathway and a timeline to a vacci ...