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ASIC gives green light to FPA fees code

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
ASIC has approved the Financial Planning Association of Australia's Professional Ongoing Fees Code. Announced by FPA chief executive Dante De Gori to over 1000 delegates at the opening of the 2016 FPA Professionals Congress, it is the first code to ...

Technical Services Forum shines light on leading specialists

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
Technical services managers from IOOF and ANZ took the scholarship awards for UNSW Retirement Planning and Aged Care courses at the final Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum for 2016. Ling Wang and Rahul Sing, technical services managers ...

Banks balancing profit and capital adequacy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2016
... public commentary over the majors' high level of profitability, you need to take a step back and assess this profitability in light of the majors' ROEs, which have fallen considerably since the GFC. "[Their] ability to identify cost take-out opportunities ...

Court blocks IOOF class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... expose misconduct and bring justice to its victims, something is amiss and it needs to change." Since the allegations came to light, IOOF has been the subject of inquiries from both the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...

ASIC confirms systemic failures in advice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... likelihood of similar systemic failures occurring in the future. "Changes introduced through the FOFA reforms have shone a light on the advice fees that customers are paying and the services they should be receiving in return,' said ASIC deputy chair ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... side of the economy--an effect commonly referred to as hysteresis--is not new... But interest in the topic has increased in light of the persistent slowdown in economic growth seen in many developed economies since the crisis." "If we assume that hysteresis ...

ACSI calls time on all-male boards

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has warned the remaining ASX 200 companies without female board representation that time is running out before votes are made against sitting directors. The ultimatum follows ACSI's target, announced ...

EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
Pacific Current Group's specialist global small and micro-cap boutique manager, EAM Investors, has won its first Australian institutional mandate. IOOF Investments has added the fund manager's Emerging Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix ...

Super and innovation: a glass half full

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... mainly come from venture capital in web-based IT and software-as-a-service businesses because they are relatively capital-light and exciting innovation sectors. Helping this are super funds like First State Super who engage with venture capital managers ...

Godfrey Pembroke celebrates excellence in advice

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
Adviser group Godfrey Pembroke has revealed the winner of its Adviser of the Year and Premier Practice Awards at its biennial conference. Principal financial planning specialist at Lighthouse Capital, Julia Schortinghuis, was awarded Adviser of the ...