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FAAA moves to combat adviser shortage with new partnership

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) India as it attempts to bridge the adviser gap. One of the main goals of the MoU, which was signed between ...

Active managers find no saviour in dual access products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
Active managers see dual access products as their ticket to a booming distribution channel, amid the ongoing secular decline of the unit trust industry. However, if they're hoping exchange-traded products (ETPs) will be a saviour - or at least a ...

Carnegie's MHC Digital, Circle target local stablecoin push

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
Venture capitalist Mark Carnegie's MHC Digital Group and fintech Circle have teamed up on a plan to ramp up USDC stablecoin distribution in Australia and Asia Pacific, exploring institutional use cases. USDC is a fully reserved stablecoin, with over ...

Family office, KKR buy up regional Queensland airports

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
The Infrastructure Fund (TIF), Australian Retirement Trust (ART) and State Super have offloaded Queensland Airports to private equity giant KKR and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar's family office, Skip Capital. Queensland Airports comprises Gold ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
In August, Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker recorded the highest level of mortgage stress since it first began tracking in early 2019. More than two in five (42%) homeowners struggled to pay their home loan in August with an estimated 1.4 million ...

Federal Reserve rate cuts beckon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
The US Federal Reserve is widely tipped to fire the starting gun on its first rate cutting cycle in years; here's what top economists see unfolding. AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina said some people believe the Fed is behind the curve and that ...

Traditional economic indicators have 'tanked': Economist

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
Speaking at Activam Group's act Conference today, AMP deputy chief economist Diana Mousina said economists can no longer rely on traditional economic indicators to make accurate predictions. Mousina noted that many economists have been predicting a ...

Vale Greg Bright

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
The financial services industry and the journalists that cover it are mourning the loss of Greg Bright, a titan of the financial trade press. For more than four decades, Bright was instrumental in shaping Australia's financial services trade media ...

Super for housing will cause rents to soar: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
New research from the Super Members Council (SMC) has revealed using superannuation for house deposits could, over time, increase rental prices. SMC said the Coalition's plan to use super for house deposits is projected to cause a 9% spike in the ...

IFM, ASX-listed firms bet on renewable fuels

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2024
... the country's fledgling renewable fuels industry. The three organisations committed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to help reduce emissions, starting with Ampol and IFM undertaking a feasibility assessment of a renewable fuels facility ...