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More female clients requires more female advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... Institute of Company Directors shows the percentage of women appointed to boards has spiked already this year, with women accounting for 47% of ASX200 board appointments so far in 2018. This was up from 36% in 2017. In comparison to last International ...

Acadian talks big data 2.0, launches A-shares strategy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... signals were all given equal weight, Metha said. New and better data combined with organisations such as the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Principles for Responsible Investment have helped capture new risks and identify materiality ...

Time to move beyond "cheap and generic" retirement products: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... bracket spends $34,858 each year while the average expenditure was $43,675. "This is a significant difference even when accounting for the different time periods of the underlying data (2015 versus 2017)," Gebler wrote. The HILDA data revealed other ...

Sequoia expands advice arm, boosts top line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... management and corporate advisory services. The company completed its acquisition of Melbourne-based financial planning and accounting services firm InterPrac, and online trading platform Morrison Securities during the period. It also migrated its businesses ...

IMA provider signs white label deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... second deal of its type for the managed account provider. Lawrence Wealth is the financial planning arm of integrated accounting and financial planning business, Lawrence Group. Lawrence Wealth managing director Brent Fairhead said the firm opted to ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... is on the rise. Austrade figures show that exports of iron ore exports amounted to about A$63 billion in FY2016-17, accounting for 16.8% of total exports of goods and services. So far this year, iron ore prices have risen by 7.4% to US$78.30/tonne. This ...

Tax strategies boost retirement savings: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... found the fund adopting tax efficiency practices was $200,000 better off on a unit-priced member option level and after accounting for deferred taxes. Keeping income, growth and cashflow characteristics in each portfolio controlled, the researchers said ...

Russell revamps ESG scoring system

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
... scores." It's based on existing scores from Sustainalytics along with the "materiality map" produced by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. "Our new material metric allows ESG investors to differentiate between companies in a more precise ...

Class recruits data manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
... area evolve very quickly. Delivering data feeds in a way that is audited and reliable is critical to the efficiency of accounting firms, and underpins the industry move towards digital SMSF. Tom will lead innovation in this area," Bungard said. Sargent ...

Crypto hype drives new partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... for their fund, but to ensure they are compliant if they do invest," Long said. "One of the most difficult aspects of accounting for crypto-currency in an SMSF portfolio is meeting the audit requirements." She added that Bitcoin Trader provides SMSF ...