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2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... year's estimated 2.4%. However, for this to happen, the World Bank's vice president of equitable growth, finance and institutions Ceyla Pazarbasioglu said things have to go to plan. "Following a year during which weak trade and investment dragged the ...

ASIC bans former Charter, NAB adviser

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... conduct at the big four banks, AMP and Macquarie. ASIC is looking at the conduct of Australia's biggest financial institutions in areas of credit and retail lending, financial advice, fees for no service, superannuation trustees, insurance, unfair ...

Iress invests in blockchain

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... workflows within the financial services lend themselves to meaningful applications of blockchain technology. "Financial institutions have no shortage of data," Iress chief executive Andrew Walsh said. "Without the right systems and levels of automation ...

$3.3 billion fall in retail managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... was up a staggering 57.5%, netwealth 30.8%, OneVue 28.2% and Praemium 28.1%. It was a different story for the big institutions. ANZ and AMP were in negative territory, down 5% and 1.9% respectively. For IOOF retail managed funds had a little boost of ...

Market Forces takes aim at big banks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... shareholder resolution in July, Market Forces has ramped up its efforts to influence Australia's largest financial institutions. Ahead of National Australia Bank's annual general meeting, the group released a statement saying NAB will face a shareholder ...

What you read in 2019: Financial advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... the year that is likely to be remembered as one financial advisers would rather forget. We've seen the major institutions restructure their wealth functions, with many heading for the exit. We've seen the banning of grandfathered commissions ...

Tech to topple banking: RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... consumer data right (CDR), which allow consumers to own their banking data, allowing them to share this data with other institutions and find products that better suit their needs. Kearns warned that non-banking data could become more valuable to financial ...

Where to invest when a GFC looms

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... "Even after witnessing an inverted yield curve one month and watching it return to normal the next, it appears that institutions are happy to play the hand they've been dealt. It appears they want to moderate overall risk exposures, which they think ...

Sam Henderson attempts to set record straight

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... syndrome" because the public sees the profits being made by the big banks and then look at fees they pay to those same institutions. "Understand that the Royal Commission was around building a narrative towards the industry to bring about change," he ...

Pinnacle buys stake in Coolabah

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... of industry funds, while the remaining is for retail (including its Smarter Money Investments brand) and smaller institutions. "Partnering with CCI is totally consistent with Pinnacle's strategy - we regard Chris and his team as highest quality in ...