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Future Fund continues progress yet challenges lay ahead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
Australia's sovereign wealth fund has continued to exceed benchmark return targets, with the fund now standing at $141 billion. Chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, Peter Costello, was pleased with performance of the fund, but mentioned that ...

Why wait for Royal Commission to address trust?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
A financial services industry group said its latest consumer research shows Australians care less about Royal Commission findings and are more concerned about professional standards. The Financial Services Institute of Australasia's (FINSIA) latest ...

Advice not yet a real profession: Kell

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... the government has recently introduced reforms aimed at raising professional standards for the industry." In order to advance this agenda, Kell said multiple issues need to be addressed: standards regarding competency and qualifications, remuneration ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Saxo Capital Markets Australia has launched its new active trading platform that will let users trade over 35,000 financial instruments at no monthly fees and without expensive legacy hardware. The product is aimed at professional traders and smaller ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... consumer spending slowed to an annualised rate of 1.5% in the March quarter after the December 2017 quarter's strong 4% advance. Still, this represents the US consumers' resilience in the face of the increased volatility in the financial markets in the ...

Tradies test predictive underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
ANZ Wealth's new artificial intelligence-powered underwriting capability has completed a successful test phase with a group of tradespeople. From next week plumbers, carpenters, electricians and builders aged between 20 and 40-years-old can access the ...

Open banking data to become super fund value add: QMV

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... experience by building a single view of banking and retirement sayings, Steffanoni said. "Open data presents the possibility to advance market infrastructure and promote efficiency and member engagement in the superannuation system," he said. QMV is ...

FPA to fight latest FASEA proposals

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
More than 1700 of the FPA's membership have joined calls for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to take a more realistic approach to its development of professional standards. Just last week the FPA issued a questionnaire to its 13,700 ...

AustralianSuper boosts digital capabilities for engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
Australia's biggest industry superannuation fund is seeing greater member engagement by way of its recently launched chatbot and new in-app messaging capability. Having launched in December 2017, AustralianSuper's partnership with digital messaging ...

MQA chief executive departs in management restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
The chief executive of Macquarie Atlas Roads (MQA) will resign as part of a finalised agreement to remove Macquarie as MQA's investment manager and rename the company. In November last year, MQA's board announced it would "pursue an internalisation ...