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Advice is valuable but advocacy issues abound

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... underlying theme of the Association of Financial Advisers' latest white paper, Great Advice for More Australians, released yesterday at the AFA National Adviser Conference. Produced by CoreData, the white paper demonstrates the positive differences financial ...

ASIC delays adviser reporting deadlines

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2019 will be recognised as an existing provider under the new professional standards. Yesterday, ASIC said it has released a new legislative instrument that delays reporting dates on number of disclosure obligations ...

What do future asset managers look like?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... industry has been operating with strong margins (about 23%) but Willcox cautioned the industry that what was successful yesterday will not necessarily be successful in the future. To this end, he spoke about the proliferation of underperforming products ...

Chief economist update: Is China starting to slow down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
Be afraid, be very afraid. This appears to be the foreboding flashing on investors' dashboards following yesterday's 3.7% drubbing in the Shanghai composite index and the 0.5% depreciation in the Chinese yuan CNY6.9136 versus the greenback. ...

Zurich launches new adviser portal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... everyday interactions an advice professional/practice has when dealing with an insurer," he said. Changes became effective yesterday. Advisers are now able to log in on Zurich's Australian website with their existing ZLife login.

The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... directors add to an investment company? That's a question that directors of top UK investment companies met to answer yesterday. At a conference organised by 86-year old Association of Investment Companies (AIC), directors from JPMorgan, Allianz and ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... says. Core exposure ETFs are the products that will be attractive to instos, he said at the Bloomberg ETF Conference yesterday. "In the independent [financial adviser] space, I think over the time you will have the creation of clusters because it's ...

Fintech hub snaps up Afterpay co-founder

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... co-founder Anthony Eisen will now sit on the board of a fintech innovation board after a raft of board changes were announced yesterday. Stone & Chalk has revamped its board, appointing seven new directors as it moves from a "start-up" to a "scale up" ...

Royal Commission tables life insurance policy questions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... the direct life insurance segment and potentially ban conflicted remuneration in risk products. The document, released yesterday, questions the adequacy of the current regulatory regime to protect consumers from detriment. For starters, Counsels Assisting ...

Make sure you have cash: Geoff Wilson

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... 29.2% in cash, WAM Leaders 14.6% and WAM Microcap 21.9%, the manager said in a conference call for media and investors yesterday, Before the GFC, Wilson's funds had about 35% in cash. "We are a little nervous," Wilson said. "US interest rates are ...