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Do inflows follow performance?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
... follow performance but there is a lag of about 12 months as it takes time to recognise outperformance. This demonstrates that few heed the well-known warning about past performance as they spend the year pouring money into the funds that performed well ...

Labor promises to recognise adviser experience

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
Labor promises it will dump educational requirements for financial advisers with over a decade's experience if it comes to power. Shadow minister for financial services Stephen Jones said such advisers with a clean record will not be required to ...

Financial Advice Hub goes live

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... respectively. Easton Investments received $819,000, while Centuria Capital Group received $2.04 million. Centuria is one of the few companies that voluntary repaid all the benefits back to the government.

Majority of Aussie fund categories underperform: Data

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
S&P Dow Jones Indices Australia has today released its Persistence Scorecard Mid-Year 2021, revealing that the majority of Australian fund categories overall showed weak performance persistence in top-performing funds across three- and five-year periods. ...

Intergenerational transfer hits $1.5tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
Australians give away the vast majority of their wealth, as some $1.5 trillion has been passed on to the next generation since 2002, the Productivity Commission finds. In 2018 alone, nearly 90% of the $100 billion transferred was in the form of inheritances ...

New digital asset fund launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... development. "After successfully managing more than $500 million for offshore clients in this exciting new asset class over the last few years, the time is right to bring DACM's skills and experience to the Australian wholesale market," Doherty s ...

Economic recap: Week to November 26

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... detected in South Africa - pushed back financial markets' interest rate hike expectations that were brought forward only a few days before. Consider these: In October, the Bank of Canada announced the end of its quantitative easing programme. This was ...

Super funds failing three-day transfer requirement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... said over the last seven weeks Stake has submitted more than 100 transfer requests to industry and retail super fund. "Very few APRA regulated super funds are meeting the three-day payment timeframe. On average it's more than a week, and normally ...

Risk inflows marginally recover

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2021
... MLC (13.7). The statistics come after the life insurance industry said the increase in life insurance premiums over the last few years are a problem that needs to be fixed rather than a trend. Speaking on a panel at the Association of Financial Advisers ...

AFCA launches new platform to improve dispute resolution

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2021
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) today launched a new digital platform to help financial services firms better manage disputes that reach the ombudsman service. The new AFCA member benchmarking dashboard is an interactive platform ...