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Financial services exposed to high cyber risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
The increased potential for financial gain is making financial services businesses a greater target for malware attacks, with these now more likely than any other form of cyber security incident. This is the key finding of new survey results published ...

Ombudsman takes on ANZ fairness role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
A Commonwealth Ombudsman is entering a newly created role at ANZ in the New Year. Joining as customer fairness advisor, Colin Neave will be charged with improving fairness of the bank's products and services for retail, small business and wealth customers ...

Advice practices pass health check

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Financial advice firms are better equipped to face future challenges following an industry shift from passive to actively managed businesses. This is one of several findings from a joint report released by Zurich and the Beddoes Institute, which goes ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... economic activity, the results have softened enough to suggest that growth remains sub-trend." (Alan Oster) This is a fair assessment from NAB's group chief economist on the latest update on Australia's business confidence and conditions. Business confidence ...

False information undermining ASIC integrity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2016
... registration application. "This has the potential to significantly undermine confidence in the licensing and registration assessment process. We will continue to scrutinise the veracity of representations to ensure that such behaviour is appropriately ...

ASIC probe reveals 185 more CBA compo cases

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... cases in the reassessment cohort. The data validation exercise found that CBA was unable to "confidently verify the assessment outcomes based on the information available in the... database." Of the 471 cases a total of 82 were subsequently offered compensation ...

Pillar sold to Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... larger funds and so lack a demonstrated track record that they can do so," the ACCC said. The ACCC's comment came in its assessment of Pillar being potentially acquired by Link Group, Australia's largest super fund administrator. Link, which submitted ...

Global equities fund becomes 'Recommended'

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... the Pan-Tribal Global Equity Fund is now considered a product that rates in the first quartile on most of Zenith's assessment criteria. The Fund provides a style neutral, currency unhedged and benchmark unaware exposure to the international equities ...

CommInsure sees adviser revamp

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... and was pleased when an adviser told me they believed the innovative personal touch with case management and claims assessment will put us in a strong market position."

Concentrated funds outperform diversified

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... concentrated funds is that there will be a higher degree of performance volatility, especially over shorter periods of assessment." "However, Zenith has found that this was not necessarily the case. In fact, the volatility of the concentrated funds was ...