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AXA IM Alts launches BTR strategy, partners with NHFIC

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2022
AXA IM Alts will offer social and affordable built-to-rent housing through a partnership with St George Community Housing (SGCH) and the National Housing and Finance Investment Corporation (NHFIC). AXA IM Alts' strategy is supplemented by funding from ...

Chuck out Chapter 7: Broome

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
Ex-FPA chair Marisa Broome believes that when it comes to regulation for advisers, Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act is not fit for purpose. Addressing the crowd at the FPA Congress 2022, Broome said that for 90% of what she does as a planner, she doesn't ...

AFA, FPA merger in best interests

CASSANDRA BALDINI, CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
In offering an update on the proposed merger with the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) chair David Sharpe said he is hoping to have the full support of members and, despite speculation, a new ...

Financial planning avatars are the future

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
Alongside a panel of experts at the FPA 2022 Congress held in Sydney, FPA chief executive Sarah Abood was asked what she expects the advice sector to look like in 2023, and her answer involved the metaverse. "I'm an optimist when it comes to technology ...

The game changing trends planners should know about

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
According to social researcher Michael McQueen, the trends that will be game changers, not just for financial planners but for the world at large, is the acceleration of artificial intelligence, the reworking of work, and the post-millennial era. "In ...

Winners are grinners: FPA awards

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) announced the winners of the 2022 FPA Awards and the Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award at the FPA Professionals Congress in Sydney yesterday. Now in its 10th year, the FPA Awards recognise individuals ...

The challenge of articulating value of ongoing advice

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
A panel session at the FPA Professionals Congress in Sydney has heard of some of the challenges planners face in articulating the value of ongoing advice arrangements. On the panel was Personal Financial Services principal and founding director Angela ...

Global X launches copper miners ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
The Global X Copper Miners ETF (ASX: WIRE) is the first of its kind in Australia, providing access to a range of global copper miners expected to play a role in future technologies and infrastructure. It's the second ETF launched by Global X ETFs Australia ...

Iress unveils Connectivity Network

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
The Connectivity Network aims bring participants together to streamline and simplify the advice execution process, thereby increasing the number of clients advisers can serve. It will directly connect platforms and insurance providers with advice softwares. ...

Property trusts hit with stop orders

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
MPG Funds Management Limited (MPG) has been banned from offering or distributing two of its property trusts to retail investors because of poor target market determinations (TMDs). The interim stop orders, implemented by ASIC, prohibit MPG from issuing ...