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Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... thing many times over from the lead up to Christmas and some are still coming in seven days into 2019... better late than never. You, I and Irene certainly need well-wishes a-plenty if 2019 turns out to be anything like 2018 - where all major world equity ...

Ausbil ESG strategy advances

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 JAN 2019
... trips to factories in China and Bangladesh in the past and recently we went to Cambodia. When you go on field trips you never get to see the worst factories, but that's good value too because you can learn what the leaders are doing and take that to ...

ASIC sharpens focus on managed accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
ASIC will keep a closer eye on managed accounts in 2019, which will involve scrutinising the financial advice provided in more detail. In its 2018-22 Corporate Plan, the corporate regulator announced a new project reviewing the practices of managed ...

Chief economist update: Is there a bear in there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... that won't make for a Merry Christmas, would it? This is because of the generally-accepted definition of a bear market. Never mind, the technical definition of a drop of at least 20% from the nearest top but more on the its effect on investor psychology. ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... central banker declare, "the sky is falling" or utter Glum's (of Gulliver's Travels fame) "we're doomed, we'll never make it"? Even ex-Fed chief Ben Bernanke was oozing optimism months (or was it weeks?) before the global financial crisis ...

Bentham AM launches mFund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... vehicle comes in. Bentham sits under Challenger's Fidante banner, which this week embarked on a series of active ETFs. "We never rule anything [ETFs] out, we may consider something in the future but right now we are focused on this," he said. In ...

Super pool ripe for adviser picking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
The growing pool of superannuation means there has never been a better time to be a financial adviser, according to a new industry white paper. With super assets projected to hit $9.5 trillion by 2035, ClearView believes this represents an unprecedented ...

FS Power50 names most influential advisers in 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... 23,000 of them, to become the country's largest group of influencers." Following the Royal Commission inquiry, there has never been a better time to acknowledge those who are striving to lift the professionalism of the industry, Snyder added. The ...

Wealth an unnecessary failure: Thorburn

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... which revealed it tried to find ways to retain plan service fees it charged to superannuation members, despite the services never actually having been supplied.

Aussie banks underestimated difficulties of advice: Hartzer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... important respect," he said. Hartzer said the rising cost of advice created a challenge for the bank, but added advice was never intended to be a "massively profitable exercise." "But it was important, as a service to customers, and going back to my ...