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FASEA releases draft degree equivalence, Code of Ethics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... completing a one-unit bridging course covering the new Code of Ethics will be required. With the related fields comprising accounting, financial planning or advice, business, commerce, law and economics degrees FASEA said all advisers with these degrees ...

Advisers underprepared for cyber risk high-stakes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... now in effect, which is worrying considering the ramifications of a cyber breach incident on a financial planning or accounting practice," Plummer said. A quarter of respondents said their business as not doing enough to adequately protect its systems ...

MetLife expands retail life business

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... SMSF retirement specialist subsidiary Accurium as regional development manager. At Accurium, Sugden helped build the accounting network and create opportunities to secure retirement outcomes for more than two years. He also spent more than six years ...

Global Merces launches managed funds regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... outsource administrative functions, Grofski said, adding she's also seen an improvement in application dropout rates. Accounting and banking have kept up with the latest technology - but funds management processes are still lagging behind, she said. ...

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 ...