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Australian market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower, following losses on Wall Street overnight. At 0642 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,490. Wall Street stocks tumbled almost one per cent due to unease over ...

Remuneration has no bearing on advice quality

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
The head of Bombora Advice, which has just acquired two new financial advice practices, has defended commission based remuneration structures for risk advisers. Commenting on the recent inquiries into commission-based remuneration structures in the ...

Mandatory qualifications will lead to adviser exodus

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Enforcing minimum qualifications for financial advisers will lead to many leaving the industry, according to Connect Financial Services Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan. Speaking to Financial Standard, Tynan pointed to the results of introducing minimum ...

Advisers and mortgage brokers joining forces

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... can be properly integrated, and office and administration costs can be shared. Most importantly, it means the mortgage broker becomes an integral part of the business."

UBS hands wealth management business to senior staff

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
UBS will pull out of wealth management in Australia and is selling off the business to existing advisers. Former head of UBS Wealth Management Mike Chisholm, together with a group of senior advisers, has established Crestone Wealth Management with Chisholm ...

ASIC bans convicted fraud "mastermind"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
ASIC has banned the Australian "mastermind" of the UK's biggest ever boiler room scheme from practising financial services. From 2003 to 2007, Jeffrey Revell-Reade made A£70 million selling equities in non-existent companies via brokers in Madrid to ...

ASIC bans convicted broker

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
ASIC has banned a mortgage broker from engaging in credit activities and from providing financial services for 10 years following her conviction for loan fraud. In September 2014 and following an ASIC investigation, Shashi Kanta Prasad, also known as ...

Liquidnet to launch first fixed income dark pool

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... will leverage its extensive network-which includes more than 740 asset managers and relationships with many exchanges and broker dealers around the globe-to create a critical mass of liquidity focused on the corporate bond market," he said.

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... has led them towards fixed income investments. This thinking is becoming much more embedded in a financial adviser's and broker's asset class diversification models and model portfolios for individual investors," Murphy said. "Australia has long lacked ...

Argo lodges infrastructure LIC prospectus

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... toll roads, telecommunications towers and electricity, gas and renewable energy utilities. A priority (shareholder) offer, broker firm offer and general offer will be made along with the prospectus. This is likely to occur on May 26. "Argo is delighted ...