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Former NAB adviser sentenced

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... NAB between May 2015 and December 2016, before becoming a credit representative of a credit licensee late in 2017 for a little over one month.

Advice associations slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... have been left unchallenged, including the very flawed Royal Commission recommendations," the group said. It added that little is being done to support financial advisers at risk of losing their businesses due to changes in remuneration. Instead, the ...

Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... - 6.5% and barring unexpected developments, this target would be achieved this year even if economic growth slows to a little below 6%. Despite downgrading its 2019 growth outlook, the OECD's interim projections still forecast 6.1% growth for the ...

Super Consumers Australia launches, slams MySuper products

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... representing fund trustees, with combined budgets in excess of $42 million, and employing more than 100 staff. "There has been little dedicated consumer representation in superannuation policy for far too long," O'Halloran said, pointing to the Royal ...

Calls for better drawdown rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... term deposits or the dividend income emanating from a share portfolio sounds attractive but for most retirees (who have little in the way of income-producing assets outside superannuation) this sort of strategy is unlikely to produce an income they might ...

Chief economist update: Future path of fed funds rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
... cutting the fed funds rate another 25 basis points to 1.75%-2% at the conclusion of the September FOMC meeting. There was little movement in the US financial markets for as Financial Standard declared just three days ago: "Every man and his dog is already ...

Chief economist update: The fear of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... 14th - when the Queen of England agreed to make a speech, effectively starting a new session of Parliament - leaves very little time for "oppositions" to gather enough hands for a vote of no confidence versus Johnson, reverse Brexit, and/or delay the ...

Advisers band together: AFA Conference 2019 kicks off

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... from the time we launched it and we want to continue that feeling throughout the whole event. That meant separating it a little from our traditional AFA conference brand and working to come up with something that we felt would be a positive message," ...

Government should intervene in BOLR changes: Opposition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... the customer." Despite Tudehope's inability to provide an informed response, Mookhey's questioning may have done little for impacted AMP advisers anyway. In making his argument, Mookhey referred to an editorial by AMP group executive, advice ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... 1930 to 25.1% three years later. More worrying at this point in time is the fact that central bank policy rates have very little room to stimulate their respective economies by lowering interest rates... just when another global recession is ominously ...