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Financial advice valued beyond returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... are not only making a difference by helping clients feel financially in control, but are also ensuring that a considered course of action ultimately results in a better financial position, Brown added. Of the 600 investors who participated in the survey ...

Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... amended so certificates are not always required; and the maximum number of members in an SMSF will be increased to six. Of course, the election result also means that franking credit refunds will continue, there will be no 10% rule and catch up concessional ...

FASEA reveals exam dates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is calling for registrations to sit the first round of adviser exams. Financial advisers who wish to sit the inaugural FASEA exam have until May 31 to notify the body of their intention to do so. ...

Time ticks by on FASEA approvals

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... mid-June. FASEA had originally planned to communicate the outcomes for the assessment of graduate diploma and bridging course applications by "late May 2019," according to the frequently asked questions section of its website. The update came after the ...

Ethics Centre to launch FASEA approved course

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
The Ethics Centre is developing an ethics course for financial advisers to help them meet the requirements of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) reforms. The bridging course is expected to be piloted in conjunction with an ...

Forrests donate $655m to foundation

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... the couple and has supported 280 projects globally since its 2001 inception. The $655 million donation was made over the course of six months in installments and is in response to the need to address some of the world's most urgent and complex challenges ...

Chief economist update: RBA May cut, May not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... as published in the Australian Financial Review. Yes Virginia, they're looking out for number one (politicking?), of course. I trust the RBA enough not to give in to vested interests and abide by its 'charter': "To ensure that the monetary ...

Chief economist update: Policy of patience

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2019
... "wide range of information" argues for a resumption of the Fed's normalisation campaign - barring exogenous shocks, of course. Labour market conditions are solid and strong. While measured inflation remains below target, note the Fed started raising ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2019
... inflation in the US at 1.9%; the Eurozone at 1.4%; Japan at 0.5%; the UK at 1.9%; and lately, Australia at 1.3%. The clue, of course, lies in the behaviour of wages. Wages growth is slower than 1990 levels. US earnings are up 4.2% in the year to February ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... retirement incomes, because lower Age Pension payments would largely erode the increase in income from savings. "And of course all workers would have lower incomes while working if the Superannuation Guarantee increases."