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Victoria firm appoints senior investment adviser

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... Prior to that role, Smith was the director of Melbourne sales for RBS and ABN AMRO, and an associate director at Deutsche Bank. "At Providence, we take a boutique approach to client relationships, and the addition of such a well-regarded local adviser ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... developments have empowered millennials to stay always connected, well informed and willing to embrace new entrants. They expect to bank in their own time, wherever they are and through whatever channel they choose," Duncombe said. "As an industry we ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015

BNP Paribas loses custody deal to RBC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
A $5.5 billion fund manager has ended its custody agreement with BNP Paribas and appointed Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Bangarra Group-owned Bennelong Funds Management has appointed RBC Investor and Treasury Services as its new custodian an administrator ...

Robots can't read your dreams, advice firm warns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Robo-advice is potentially damaging for the advice sector, as it's hard to replace a human's ability to discuss a client's dreams and aspirations, an advice group has said. Cigna Wealth senior financial adviser Zoe Downs said that recent growth in computer ...

Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Australian financial services industry has painted itself as only mildly innovative according to a study by National Australia Bank (NAB). About 39% of small-to-medium enterprises in finance have suggested there is a culture of innovation among their ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... towards policy normalisation. Concerns over China's slowdown - which became even more concerning after the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) shaved the country's growth outlook to 6.8% this year (from 7.2% it predicted six months before). Not only that ...

No industry is immune from poor culture risk: ASIC

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
There are currently no sectors in the financial services industry immune from the risk of cultivating a poor culture, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner John Price said. Speaking at the 2015 Customer Owned Banking ...

Australian pre-retirees streets ahead of US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Industry bodies often say people's super savings will not fund a comfortable retirement, but new stats from the US show just how far ahead Australia is. Figures from US researcher Bankrate show that 26% of Americans ages 50 to 54 have no savings. That ...