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Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
A co-investment in a US toll road will become an industry superannuation fund's second largest infrastructure exposure after Port Botany and Port Kembla in New South Wales. Cbus has announced an investment of $140 million in the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) ...

Australians putting off retirement planning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Nearly a third of the population aged 18 to 64 consider retirement too far away to plan for, according to a Roy Morgan survey of 50,000 people. This lack of planning and engagement in the process is likely to contribute to less-than-optimum superannuation ...

BGL joins DomaCom in fight for Kidman

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Fractional property investment fund DomaCom has secured a new partner in its crowd-funding bid to acquire the Kidman Station pastoral holdings. BGL Corporate Solutions, a cloud-based SMSF administration solution, is backing DomaCom's Kidman Station ...

Fed's plan slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
By itself the latest update on US inflation shouldn't impede the Fed's path towards policy normalisation. The December numbers are neither here nor there - i.e., it justifies whatever the market's pre-conceived view - four 25 bps hike this year as indicated ...

CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is building on its Sydney innovation lab by launching a second lab in Hong Kong and unveiling plans to expand to London later this year. CBA group executive institutional banking and markets, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, said Hong Kong's ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie planner

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
ASIC has given a former Macquarie Equities employee a three-year ban. Ben Rickman was found by the regulator "not to be adequately trained or competent to provide financial services," having done so as a Macquarie Equities representative from 2012 to ...

Buffett brings adviser PI products to Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) has announced it is introducing professional indemnity products in Australia, including one for financial planners. The new policies are Executive First Directors & Officers Liability ...

Robo-advice challenged by price expectations

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... of respondents said they would use robo-advice tools if they were free. Only 3% were interested in having a full financial plan generated if a fee were charged for it. At the same time, though, 73% of participants indicated they needed to have a clearer ...

AMP to announce SMSF board

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
AMP SMSF will announce a new board for its self-managed superannuation fund administration business in the first quarter of 2016. The new board follows AMP's acquisitions of SMSF administrators SuperIQ and SuperCorp in November and progresses the financial ...

Adviser pleads guilty following ASIC sting

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
A former financial adviser has pleaded guilty in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court to dishonest conduct following an ASIC investigation. Darren Wise was a former representative for a practice known at the time as Financial Planning Services. From 2000 ...