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Woodford flags comeback

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
The UK's financial regulator is warning investors that disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is launching a new venture, WCM Partners. The Financial Conduct Authority was forced to act after Woodford announced that his new investment firm is in the ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg flagged that the temporary disclosure laws for public companies relaxed at the height of the coronavirus crisis will be made permanent. In May 2020, the government announced the temporary measures, modifying provisions under ...

ASIC to take targeted approach with PIP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
ASIC commissioner Sean Hughes said the government's Product Intervention Powers (PIP) will allow the regulator to take a targeted, calibrated and less prescriptive approach to regulation. Speaking at the Australian Finance Industry Association Risk ...

Australia sweeps pension market rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... to above 26%. "Alternatives have been attractive for return reasons, offsetting their governance difficulties," the report read. However, one issue that is a missed opportunity for the system is "to influence and mitigate corporate misalignments like ...

Hume slams superannuation circus

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
Senator Jane Hume has slammed the spectacle within the superannuation sector and the conflicting views from executives and industry bodies, which she says is the most "frustrating" part of her job. The Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services ...

How to attract high net worth clients

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
The latest Netwealth The Advisable Australian report has revealed the attitudes of potential financial advice clients when it comes to brand affinity, finding that higher incomes bring higher expectations. The report found that increased household income ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut," Warren Buffett once famously advised. The barber's nod will invariably be met with opposition from shampoo manufacturers. Such is the divide between the Morrison government (the barber) and labour unions ...

Wage subsidy to rescue advice industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
With just 65 new names appearing on the ASIC Financial Adviser Register in 2020, the rapid decline in adviser numbers has industry experts calling for a wage subsidy to incentivise advice practices to take hire graduates. In its pre-Budget submission ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
It's beginning to look a lot like the Eurozone economy wouldn't be able to dodge a double-dip recession given tighter and/or extended coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns remain in place in many of its member countries. Eurozone GDP fell into ...

Chief economist update: Money plus confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money." - James Madison, 4th President of the USA (1809-1817) and Founding Father The Morrison government circulating more money which, according to the Budget Papers 2020-21, amounts ...