Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 61 - 70 of 2575 results for "BEA"

Adviser levy tripled, labelled "deeply unfair"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023
The estimated ASIC levy for this financial year will see financial advisers slugged $3217, as the levy freeze comes to an end. Under the estimated levies released yesterday, the levy to be paid per adviser has almost tripled from the $1142 that it was ...

FSCP hands down second order, audits adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2023
The Financial Services and Credit Panel has ordered an audit of a financial adviser who carelessly recommended a client switch superannuation funds. Releasing its second determination since it launched, the FSCP said the unnamed adviser, only referred ...

Large AFSLs lead advice complaints: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
Financial advisers from large aligned AFSL groups bear the brunt of complaints, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority's data, with several AMP and Insignia Financial practices leading the pack. Modelling of the AFCA data shows ...

New Quantum reveals Nasdaq listing plans

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
Bondi-based digital wealth management platform New Quantum has signed a business combination agreement with Canna-Global Acquisition Corp to become a publicly listed company in the US. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Canna-Global, New Quantum will now ...

ETP investors struggle to pick winners

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
Rainmaker Information research shows that investors in exchange-traded products (ETPs) have struggled to consistently beat market returns. The research analysed both money-weighted (MW) and time-weighted (TW) returns to determine investor performance. ...

AI in ESG: Risk or opportunity?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is already rapidly disrupting various industries, speeding up processes and making fast work of huge amounts of data, and investors and businesses need to analyse the material ESG risks and opportunities of ...

Family offices look to infrastructure for alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Family offices are increasingly allocating to infrastructure and shunning more risky alternatives such as venture capital and hedge funds, a new BlackRock report shows. Infrastructure will be a pivotal alpha-generating strategy for family offices this ...

Bank of Queensland slapped with EU

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
APRA and AUSTRAC have agreed to a court enforceable undertaking (CEU) following weakness in the bank's risk management and money laundering controls. APRA said it's acted following several beaches or its prudential standards and a review that ...

Active fund outperformance mostly short-lived: SPIVA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
The S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) Persistence Scorecard has shown a staggering number of Australian actively managed funds failed to outperform over five consecutive years. According to the report, nearly no actively managed equity, A-REIT and fixed ...

Melissa Caddick declared dead by coroner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
The fraudster who purported to be a financial adviser to scam upwards of $23 million out of family and friends is likely dead, the inquest has found. That was the key finding delivered by the NSW Coroner yesterday, though the nature of her demise could ...