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How to retain HNW heirs as clients

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
Wealth managers who want to retain high-net-worth client assets through generations must engage better with their clients' heirs long before a wealth transfer happens, according to GlobalData. The GlobalData 2018 wealth manager survey asked wealth managers ...

Chief economist update: Stability is doing it for Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
Another new set of tariffs will take effect today in the on-going Sino-US trade battle. Yet most equity markets around the world registered gains last week ahead of its implementation. This is because US-China tariff phase two is less onerous than was ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
In closing the sixth round of the Royal Commission, counsel assisting found that CommInsure, TAL and Rest may have engaged in conduct that fell below community standards after hearing "troubling" evidence from various case studies. CommInsure and Colonial ...

AI Group pushes back against super gender gap reforms

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
The Australian Industry Group (AI Group) believes Labor's proposal to remove the $450 superannuation guarantee threshold will add more to employer costs than the retirement incomes of women. AI Group chief executive Innes Willox said Labor's ...

ASIC extends relief to foreign financial services firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
ASIC will allow foreign companies that provide financial services to Australian wholesale clients to continue without the need of an AFSL until 30 September 2019. The corporate regulator announced in June it was proposing a modified licensing regime ...

New study taps into investor behavior

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Four Melbourne-based researchers have tested a cognitive training scheme that could help investors overcome fixation with purchase prices and limit losses. Researchers from Monash University, University of Melbourne and La Trobe University conducted ...

Give life code a chance, Loane tells Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive Sally Loane equated removing the carve out of life insurance claim handling in the Corporations Act to using "a sledgehammer to crack a nut." Appearing before the financial services Royal Commission on ...

Improve climate risk disclosure: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
ASIC has called for improvements to the consistency of disclosure practices among Australia's listed companies. In ASIC Report 593, the corporate regulator found limited climate risk disclosure outside of the top-200 listed companies in Australia. ASIC's ...

Specialist insurer updates definitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
A specialist insurance firm has updated its definitions and expanded product benefits for members. PPS Mutual has enhanced its Professionals Choice product range. Across all existing and new policies, the 12-month terminal illness definition within ...

Pengana merger pays off for WHSP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
Washington H. Soul Pattinson grew the value of its financial services investment portfolio by 19.3% in the 12 months to July 2018, contributing $16.4 million in net profit. Releasing full-year results today, the diversified investment house said the ...