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Simple Fund 360 picks up AdviserLogic

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
AdviserLogic clients are now available to use Simple Fund 360, after the software provider integrated with the BGL platform. The SMSF software provider added in a release that AdviserLogic used the free BGL application programming interface (API) to ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... month in December, to $1.06 trillion after ending 2016 at $1.09 trillion. China's Treasury holdings are coming under extra scrutiny after a signal earlier this year that America's largest creditor may be easing bond-buying amid rising trade tensions." ...

Unintended consequences for opt-in insurance: KPMG

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... earners would be most impacted by the proposed changes, with the anticipated 26% increase in insurance premiums set to wipe an extra 1.4% on average from the account balances of females through erosion. Currently sitting at 15.8%, the figure is set to ...

Dover exit renews self-licensing calls

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
The collapse of Dover Financial Advisers has left more than 400 advisers with a narrow 30-day window to sign on with a new licensee, renewing calls for a more straightforward self-licensing regime. It's unclear at this stage where those 400 advisers ...

Adviser performance data vital to remuneration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... tracking to budget. The report shows it is common across most businesses to hold one-on-one meetings where an adviser requires extra coaching, motivation, guidance or support to meet targets. In some instances, practices hold quarterly board meetings ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... Developing nations including Turkey, Indonesia, India and Argentina have raised rates, while Brazil's central bank has sold extra foreign-exchange swap contracts in an effort to stabilise their markets." This is supported by Factset's data that ...

Former AMEX director joins wealth consultant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... risk Jonathan Steffanoni discussed increasing calls for asset owning fiduciaries to integrate greater consideration for extra-financial information to address macro-economic risks such as natural resources scarcity.

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

GROW Super seeks RSE licence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
In recent years new superannuation players have emerged, each with a view to transform the system for the next generation. Although six of the 17 new super products to enter the fray are still yet to officially launch, they have already shaken the industry's ...

$900bn of wealth soon up for grabs: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
Financial adviser review service Adviser Ratings is anticipating an adviser exodus over the next five years, as scrutiny on the advice industry changes the landscape. According to Adviser Ratings research, structural transition of the industry will ...