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AFA rebukes ideological drive against conflicted remuneration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
The Association of Financial Advisers came out swinging in a public response to the Royal Commission's final report this morning. Speaking at the Sydney leg of the association's annual Connect Tour, AFA general manager of policy and professionalism ...

Chief economist update: The Fed has hit neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
The widely-anticipated market moving event this week - US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's semi-annual testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the US Senate - turned out to be a bummer. We've seen this ...

NAB extends asset manager custody deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
NAB Asset Servicing has extended its custody partnership with a $4.5 billion fund manager. On Tuesday the custodian said an extensive operating model led to the deal extension, which will see it also provide unit registry services, including call centre ...

Local fintech investment soars

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
Australia's fintech industry is catching the interest of international investors and raked in US$600 million of funding last year, according to KPMG analysis. KPMG's 2018 Pulse of Fintech report showed Australian-based Avoka and its sale to ...

Royal Commission boosts platform provider

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
Another platform provider believes it's well positioned after the Royal Commission. Releasing its half-yearly results to the ASX today, HUB24 said it expects to benefit from Kenneth Hayne's suite of recommendations for improving the wealth management ...

Equity Trustees acquires superannuation trustee

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
Equity Trustees announced it will acquire a superannuation trustee for $6.2 million. Equity Trustees' parent company EQT Holdings has signed an agreement to purchase Zurich Australian Superannuation (ZAS), a subsidiary of Zurich Australia. ZAS has ...

Rich families stingier with charities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
Wealthy families gave away a smaller slice of their household income in 2018 compared to those on the other end of the economic spectrum, a new study has found. Roy Morgan found that households bringing in $130,000 to $250,000 in household income gave ...

Centrepoint emerges from the red

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
Centrepoint Alliance's business and leadership restructure have helped pull the ASX-listed company out of the red. Centrepoint overturned a $1.3 million loss to $100,000 of after-tax profit in the six months to December 2018. Operating expenses fell ...

Royal Commission and its one canoe message is on point

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
Challenger chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper said the Royal Commission's outstanding lesson for SMSF advisers is to keep their feet in one canoe. Speaking on the final day of the Self-managed Super Fund Association's national conference in ...

Chief economist update: The RBI surprises (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
The Reserve Bank of India is full of surprises. When financial markets expected it to raise interest rates, it didn't. When everyone expected interest rates to remain steady, it cut. Recall that back in October 2018, the RBI surprised markets by ...