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Westpac faces lending practices breach: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission is taking Westpac to the Federal Court for allegedly breaching home-loan responsible lending practices. Between December 2011 and March 2015, the regulator claims Westpac failed to properly assess ...

Super funds trawling eBay for legacy parts

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
FSC chief executive Sally Loane believes financial services laws are "locking down" the industry and consumers into out-dated products. Speaking at the FSC State of the Industry address in Sydney, Loane said the problem is embedded to the extent where ...

ACBC partners with Praemium

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
Exchange traded bond provider Australian Corporate Bond Company partnered with Praemium to launch a fixed income separately managed account solution. The 'Yield Plus' portfolio, which invests in individual investment-grade corporate bonds through exchange ...

Australian Unity enters trustee services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
Marking the first trustee financial services licence issued in more than two decades, Australian Unity has launched its trustee services business. Revealed in the group's interim results, Australian Unity Trustees will provide estate planning, trustee ...

YBR partnership drives wealth renewal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
In transforming its wealth division Yellow Brick Road will work with an industry software provider to benefit its network of franchisee owners. YBR will roll out Rubik's scaled advice software Provisio to its franchisees, enabling them to write 80% ...

Netwealth dominating platform sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
Platform providers are shifting their focus toward development of functionality after years of costly compliance work, with netwealth leading the field. That is a key finding of Investment Trends' 2016 Platform Benchmarking and Competitive Analysis ...

ICG boosts energy trust with wind farm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
Infrastructure Capital Group added a Victorian wind farm to its $1.2 billion Energy Infrastructure Trust. The Bald Hills Wind Farm was purchased from Mitsui & Co (Australia), the wholly-owned Australian subsidiary of one of Japan's largest general trading ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
The latest lending stats out of the Eurozone continue the developing good news story in the single currency area despite the lingering political uncertainty - elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany - Brexit and continuing terrorist threat ...

Bad credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
Good one month, not so good the next. This is the story of private sector credit in Australia - the month-on-month growth rates, at least. Total private sector credit went up by a lower than expected 0.2% in the month of January - the slowest pace since ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
It was good. Nay, it was very good. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on company profits helped explain the latest jump in the NAB survey that showed business conditions increased by 6 points to a reading of +16 in January - the highest ...