Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 621 - 630 of 2003 results for "SID"

CFS study finds managed accounts improve advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
Financial advisers now have a number for how much more time they can expect to spend with their clients if they switch to managed accounts. A new whitepaper published by Colonial First State this week found advisers using managed accounts were spending ...

Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
Frontier has hired a senior consultant for its equities research team as it recruits for key senior roles across the business. James Gunn will start in the senior consultant role on January 7, working closely with Frontier's head of equities research ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
A prominent financial advice group suggests Labor's proposals on negative gearing, capital gains tax and dividend imputation all need a closer look heading into an election year. HLB Mann Judd Sydney wealth partner Jonathan Philpot said these issues ...

Blockchain comes to managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
A global funds network used by 95% of Australian platforms will migrate its entire network to blockchain in May 2019. Calastone expects its new distributed market infrastructure (DMI) to dramatically improve the infrastructure for trading and reporting ...

Stop undermining franking credit refunds: Wilson

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
Wilson Asset Management chair Geoff Wilson warned the proposed changes to franking credit refunds will not only damage the Australian economy but undermine the tax system. Wilson presented an economic case on why both sides of politics should safeguard ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
We may have a Santa Claus rally this year after all! US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell spooked us all - in the Halloween month of October - when, in an interview with PBS, he declared that: "The really extremely accommodative low interest rates ...

Productivity Commission pushes for superannuation scale benefits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The Productivity Commission has made another "compelling" argument for economies of scale in superannuation, estimating it to save the industry $340 million each year. The benefits however, aren't flowing to members. In its final supplementary paper ...

New terms for early super access receives mixed reaction

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
Victims of domestic violence will be able to access their superannuation thanks to new measures introduced by the Federal Government. Overall the package has been met with mixed reactions. Victims of domestic and family violence will be able to withdraw ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
America's Thanksgiving celebration is only two winks away but the way the US equity market is going, investors have nothing to give thanks for. Three of Wall Street's benchmark equity indices are now in the red for the year - S&P 500 down 1.2% ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
More investors are turning to fixed income ETFs as a way to finetune their bond portfolios. Karren Vergara finds out what is driving the demand and why this new wave of defensive ETFs is here to stay. Recalling the sharp market correction that stung ...