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$200k on the life-line for new Freedom chief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... ASX, which is a fixed remuneration package of $400,000 comprising base salary and superannuation. He stands to pick up an extra $200k if Freedom or a related party acquires a life insurance license. The firm also said up to half of Williamson's $400,000 ...

FASEA to assess professional advice designations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... financial adviser's CPD each year. "From the association's perspective, such a proposal raises legitimate concerns about the extra compliance burden on licensees, potential conflicts of interests between licensees and CPD providers, and incentives for ...

Superannuation fund introduces fee changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... Superannuation Trustees' Best Member Facing Project Award for its Simple Super Advice product that provides advice at no extra cost to members wanting to make investment decisions leading to retirement. General manager of distribution and advice ...

Survey says no to subsidising life insurance for genetically at-risk Aussies

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... sustainability of the life insurance industry." The survey found only a small minority of people were prepared to pay a little extra to subsidise others, with $5 the amount most supported by survey respondents. The FSC said support began to drop significantly ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
The "mother of all eco stats" - the US employment report - has been released. But it was neither here nor there and by the looks of it, it didn't make an iota of a difference that the Fed will raise the fed funds rate by another 25 basis points ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... from US$10.16 to US$15.49 trillion dollars which is 13%-20% of the world GDP in 2017. Additionally, this will involve an extra investment stimulus to the economy from US$2.93 to US$3.71 trillion which is 3.7%-4.7% of the world GDP in 2017. Countries ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... the Fed becomes determined to reduce/remove policy accommodation. Trump's tax cuts and infrastructure spend has given extra oomph to the US economy. Ones, that the Fed is trying to hose down by virtue of its mandate for stable inflation - that's ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street in drunken sailor's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
The ups and downs in US equities over the past weeks reminds me of the book, "A Random Walk on Wall Street", authored by Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel back in 1973, which posited that: "...short run changes in stock prices ...

ASIC bans Perth adviser

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... his employment at Lifenet, Wilson overdrew four clients' superannuation accounts. When clients asked him to put the extra money back into their accounts, he funneled them into his own account, ASIC said. "Between 25 October 2017 and 23 January 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Faster wages growth a one-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
"There was a higher rate of wage growth recorded across the majority of industries in comparison to this time last year, reflecting the influence of improved labour market conditions. Annual wage growth at the Australia level was 2.3%, the highest growth ...