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FASEA confirms CFP recognition

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2019
... Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert in October last year at the Association of Financial Advisers' national conference on the Gold Coast. In his maiden speech to the advice industry, Robert said some advisers would be eligible to receive up to four credits ...

Goldman Sachs creates new super, pensions role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
Goldman Sachs has demonstrated their focus on Australia and New Zealand's superannuation and pensions space with the creation of a new role. Rory MacEwan will become head of superannuation and pensions funds for Goldman Sachs in Australia and New Zealand. ...

Super funds eye intra-fund advice shake-up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019
... scaled, intra-fund or comprehensive advice. "I don't think there is a fund that we work with that would say, 'we have a gold standard advice model.'" Most funds are reviewing their advice model or intend to do so, she said, adding that in ...

NFP super funds rise to occasion post-Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... practices and performance. This was a key message at this year's Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF), which kicked off at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre yesterday. Welcoming about 1000 delegates representing over 50 super funds, Australian ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Iron ore prices are going to go up. Iron ore prices are headed lower. Iron ore prices will go up and then head down. These are the different forecast permutations on the outlook for iron ore. Here's a quick sampling of the Australian Financial Review's ...

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
MSCI said it will increase weighting of China A-shares in its indices from 5% to 20% by the end of this year. Here's what managers think. Mainland Chinese shares could rise: VanEck VanEck believes the inclusion could hoist mainland Chinese shares ...

FPA disciplines two members

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... for a period of time, after breaching the association's code of professional practice. Matthew Brown, chair of the FPA's Gold Coast chapter committee, from MiQ Private Wealth - whose licensee is the Magnitude Group - has been stripped of his association ...

UniSuper makes two senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
A $70 billion superannuation fund made two senior appointments to bolster its global investment strategies and ESG capabilities. Penny Heard joins UniSuper as portfolio manager within the global strategies and quantitative team, while Lou Capparelli ...

Chief economist update: The Fed has hit neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
The widely-anticipated market moving event this week - US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's semi-annual testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the US Senate - turned out to be a bummer. We've seen this ...

Accountant banned for bad SMSF advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
A Gold Coast accountant has been banned from providing financial services for three years, after agreeing to a court enforceable undertaking with ASIC. Jenan Oslem Thorne - who also goes by the names Cenan Thorne or Cenan Dikmen - was found by the corporate ...