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Climate change a real risk for investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Climate change is a growing concern for the majority of investors polled in Financial Standard's latest survey. Despite investors' worry, Australia's top companies are failing to improve climate risk disclosures. Seventy-one per cent of respondents ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The majority of non-property investors support the modification of negative gearing policy as fears over housing affordability grow. New research from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) shows 55% of non-property investors would ...

Major super funds urge asset manager code adoption

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... reported. Despite being renowned for its difficulty, the number of Level I registrations grew 14% year-on-year, the majority of which were from Mainland China (19,598), the US (12,126) and India (6,889). Some 3357 Australians took part in the six-hour-long ...

REITs the saving grace on SPIVA scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... beat their benchmark index, outperforming the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT index by 1.1 percentage points. "Evidently, the vast majority of A-REIT funds tended to be more defensive than their benchmark over the past five years, as most of them recorded less volatile ...

More than half fail CFA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... reported. Despite being renowned for its difficulty, the number of Level I registrations grew 14% year-on-year, the majority of which were from Mainland China (19,598), the US (12,126) and India (6,889). Some 3357 Australians took part in the six-hour ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... "comfortable" Retirement Standard at $44,011 per annum for a single person aged around 65 and $60,457 for a couple, the vast majority of retirees Milliman surveyed spend less than that. Furthermore, when attempting to gauge people's realistic expectations ...

Advisers reckoning with direct risk sales growth: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... looking at how the mix of policyholders has changed over time. Over the past five years the proportion of smokers, the majority of which were men, fell from 12.7% to 11% based on in-force premiums. The number of female smokers slightly decreased from ...

Most investors shun credit ratings: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
Credit rating agencies have no bearing on the majority of investors' decisions, Financial Standard's weekly spot poll shows. Almost three-in-four (74%) respondents don't rely on the recommendations of credit rating agencies - 39% of these participants ...

CBA denies majority of latest AUSTRAC allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
CBA said it denies most of the additional 100 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing allegations handed down from AUSTRAC last December. In its submission to the Federal Court, CBA said it "denies 89 allegations in full and admits 11 ...

IFAs tackling bank-owned competitors head on

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... ASIC's recent report showing vertically integrated institutions are failing to act in the best interests of clients the majority of the time. ASIC found 75% of cases analysed did not comply with the best interests duty; institutionally-aligned advisers ...