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Open banking regime to boost advice

DARREN SNYDER, KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
Australia's open banking regime will fundamentally change the way financial advisers interact with consumers but several hurdles must be cleared before any true potential is realised. The expected multi-billion dollar implementation of open banking ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
The US Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and other central banks have signalled they too will pare stimulatory measures introduced in the wake of the GFC, all of which has significant consequences for money managers in 2018. The Reserve Bank ...

SMSF members want overseas restrictions lifted

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... John Maroney said. "Aside from the fact it's not members' preference, it creates significant additional costs by having an extra superannuation fund and subsequently transferring the benefit to their SMSF. The end result is higher administrative and ...

School holidays require prudent financial planning: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... compared to regular school periods, leading to 50% of respondents experiencing financial stress and feeling pressure to fund extra activities. Only 42% of parents have a budget at the start of the holidays to manage additional costs and many typically ...

Zurich UK launches selfie app for underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
Zurich has launched facial recognition technology in an effort to promote life insurance adoption across the UK. FaceQuote is able to quote a monthly life insurance premium for prospective customers based on age estimates calculated after a selfie is ...

An industry fund vision for retirement comfort

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
... place less value on their future self than they do their current self - meaning that while they may be unwilling to save extra for retirement now, they are willing to do so in the future. Vision Super chief executive Stephen Rowe said the program had ...

2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... clients won't be paying performance fees. Concentrated portfolios are meanwhile prominent in performance tables because of the extra active risk they are taking, which is a major reason why they generally charge higher absolute fees. Another is that ...

Fee-for-service faces ultimate risk test

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
Rollout of the Life Insurance Framework (LIF) on 1 January 2018 will be the strongest test of fee-for-service risk advice, a model seen as imperative to the financial advice industry's future. Industry experts say the critical component to make fee-for-service ...

Not all heroes wear capes

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... animated bot from research and consumer group CHOICE, says young people are losing approximately the same amount in fees on extra super accounts as they fork out for breakfast - an average $1,321.84 per year - and suggests they could offset their breakfast ...

ASFA disappointed in Royal Commission scope

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... tape, and that prudential standards must strike the right balance to allow the superannuation industry to thrive. "Every extra board paper at a superannuation meeting dealing with a new regulation, every new form to fill in by the CEO, the CIO, the CFO ...