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Spring FG to launch digital advice platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Spring FG will launch a digital advice platform that will allow users to manage their bank accounts, investments and superannuation assets in one place. Spring247 will be available in July and has been developed by fintech specialist My Prosperity. ...

Wilson HTM shareholders approve acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Wilson HTM shareholders have voted in favour of the new ownership structure as the business appointed a Deutsche Bank director to head the capital markets division. This is the last step of a process that has seen ASX-listed Wilson HTM Investment Group ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... high this month (when the Greek saga went from simmer to boil) and way below the 2015 high of 22.39 (when the Swiss National Bank abandoned its defense of the Swiss franc - 15 January). Yup, the SNB brought more fear in the market - not one expected ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... up to $15 billion additional capital over the next five years after Australia joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Industry Super Australia (ISA) chair, Peter Collins, said activities of the AIIB will not only provide new opportunities ...

Shares lower on Greece worries

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... in talks between Greece and its international creditors. The big banks were all in negative territory, with Commonwealth Bank down 44 cents, or 0.52 per cent, to $86.75, National Australia Bank dropped 24 cents, or 0.64 per cent, to $34.30, ANZ lost ...

Industry moves away from upfront commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Australia's life insurance advisers and providers have reached an agreement to transition from high upfront commissions to alternative remuneration models. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the ...

Extensions - What the Greeks await and the Russians hate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... dollar is currently fetching R54.46. The ruble's renewed weakness, should it persist, would limit (if not prevent) the Central Bank of Russia's (CBR) scope to provide additional monetary policy accommodation to counteract the country's deepening recession. ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... Greece and its international creditors aimed at preventing a Greek debt default. Locally on Thursday, National Australia Bank will release its consumer anxiety index and official job vacancies figures are due out. In equities news, Atlas Iron holds its ...

Labor now opposes advice Royal Commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... services sector." Whish-Wilson's motion included a reference to "the allegations that financial planners at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, ANZ Bank, Macquarie Bank and, most recently, IOOF had engaged in unethical and/or ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Institutional investors' traditional emphasis on asset allocation has given way to a focus on returns, which has led to the "bondification" of equities, a global report found. The 2015 CREATE-Research report commissioned by Principal Global Investors ...