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Former Apogee, GPS Wealth advisers banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... strategy that was in the best interests of the clients, ASIC said. He also failed to provide a professional, independent assessment of whether an SMSF which borrowed to invest in property was appropriate. Khaw put his own interests ahead of his clients' ...

Chief economist update: Fed pause could be a short one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... pressure. The Fed's inflation gauge - the PCE price index - has since been updated since the Fed's October 31 assessment and rate cut. The headline PCE inflation eased to 1.3% in the year to September from 1.4% in the previous month; the core ...

Whistleblower calls out approved product lies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... purveyors of which practiced zero adviser training or education on the policy terms and conditions," Morris said. "My assessment is that restricted life insurance APLs are unsustainable and unjustifiable in the emerging financial advice profession." ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... such as low productivity growth and aging demographics in advanced economies," IMF said. This is the IMF's latest assessment of global economic conditions and outlook as it downgraded it world economic growth forecasts (yet again) under its new managing ...

No pain, no gain: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... the "considerable amount of vocal pushback" it has generated over APRA's plans to publish heatmaps of the regulator's assessment of all MySuper products. The data APRA will use to build the heatmaps is already largely published Rowell noted, and the ...

Culture change must not be a fad: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
... bringing greater transparency to the industry, alongside pushing institutions to make certain information - such as self-assessment results public more routinely. "We are still reviewing all of the options available to us, and of course will need to ...

QMV kicks off legal practice, appoints lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... Legal. This will include keeping trustees abreast of possible future regulatory changes. It will also offer impact assessment studies for their funds. But QMV Legal is not looking to get into case law work. "We will certainly be looking at new hires. ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
Two down, none to go! There was division at the Fed - one official wanted a 50 bps rate cut; two wanted the target rate maintained - but after all was said and done, they were outvoted by the majority of seven (led by Fed chair Powell) which didn't ...

Allianz Retire+ to research retirement transition

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... early on in the process, we'll be introducing people to careers counselling or careers advice, as well as a medical assessment to challenge their thinking about health," Earl said. "Helping people to go through that decision-making process before they ...

Industry Fund Services adopts regtech solution

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... Instead of a traditional, manual compliance review of only a sample of client financial planning files, an automated pre-assessment of up to 100% of files will now be possible. Advice Regtech said it will vastly improve the volume of files audited, meaning ...