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Pinnacle boutique launches $250m LIC offer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... the same prospective strategy as the LIC, has outperformed the Small Ords by 7.3% since inception on 11 July 2016. Spheria isn't allowing for oversubscriptions due to capacity constraints. SEC will initially pay the offer costs - including all establishment ...

XTB expands retail offering, launches responsible SMA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... falsehood that investing in fixed income ETFs must be the same as investing in ASX200 equity ETFs - which most definitely isn't. Some fixed income ETFs would invest more than 80% of the portfolio in government bonds that keeps issuing longer dated bonds ...

Advisers must provide more than financial health checks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
Any financial adviser that isn't asking clients the same questions their doctor would is failing to act in the client's best interest. That is the opinion of Sydney advice firm Leading Advice managing director Katrina Haskew. She believes advisers must ...

Taking advice to the streets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... understanding how money works and in turn make better financial decisions. "We both believe focusing on just becoming a profession isn't enough, it's necessary but it won't create the catalyst for people to take their financial wellbeing seriously. We ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... disenfranchised with political parties and the political process? If you're a millennial you typically think that democracy isn't working the way it should. So what's causing this - what caused Trump, Brexit and Macron?" Sicilia said. He explained political ...

Time to start factoring in an RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... data (and its trend decline) suggest that household consumption - which accounts for the biggest chunk of GDP (around 60%) - isn't getting much support, if at all, or that any support from lower interest rates is being negated by the above-mentioned ...

Finalist feedback on future of advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... than happy to do so if it means ensuring a high standard that will define the profession in the years to come." However, this isn't limited to formal, tertiary education with all of the finalists emphasising the importance of peer collaboration in achieving ...

BEAR regime must extend entire industry: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... shareholders and consumers can really get hurt," Medcraft said. He cited culture as the biggest driver of conduct and, while ASIC isn't interested in micro-managing what people do, ensuring that consumers and investors have trust and confidence is its ...

Divergent business confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... economist, Alan Oster, explains: "escalating tensions with North Korea may have contributed to the move this month..." But this isn't consistent with the brief and relatively small decline in the Australian share market (whenever tensions flare) and ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... difference is probably made up by much smaller investors, particularly individual investors, following the momentum." This isn't too much of an issue if you're a buy-and-hold investor, he said, but further issues arise when money is moving in and out. ...