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Pre-retirees fear longevity risk: AustralianSuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... retirement. Research which led to the index's creation shows one-quarter of 1500 pre-retirees believe they will have saved enough for retirement. Most expect to rely more on superannuation than on the Age Pension for income in later years. The survey ...

Robo-advice users in for the long haul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... about the investment landscape at large, over-45s listed the cost of financial advice and the fear of retiring without enough in savings as their biggest worries. Meanwhile, 13.3% of respondents cited trust and transparency as a key issue. However, Garrett ...

Royal Commission cracks down on life insurance phone sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... several phone calls from ClearView Life Insurance, Boyle alleged staff coaxed customers into providing bank details and enough personal information which then entered them into a contract without knowing, he said. This is the way "gratuitous concurrence ...

Risk and compliance expertise in demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... or 0.2% in real growth when taking inflation into account, NSW managing director Andrew Hanson said. There just aren't enough people employed in these roles, and looking down the pipeline the trend is expected to continue well into next year, he said. ...

Risk and compliance expertise in demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... or 0.2% in real growth when taking inflation into account, NSW managing director Andrew Hanson said. There just aren't enough people employed in these roles, and looking down the pipeline the trend is expected to continue well into next year, he said. ...

Trade-off needed on existing adviser standards: Fox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... for those that have years of CPD as their proof of ongoing learning, but unfortunately relying on CPD is unlikely to be enough," Fox said in a Linkedin post. Fox also drew attention to the fact that when the professional standards legislation was passed ...

Cryptocurrencies on radar but not priority: RBA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
Cryptocurrency usage in Australia is currently not large enough to raise policy concerns for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), an official from the central bank said in Sydney yesterday. The Reserve Bank has closely followed developments in the crypto ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... something more normal. It's not austerity - we shouldn't have cut rates the last two times. The economy wasn't weak enough to warrant it. It's just getting rates back to something more normal." Did you get that? "now is the time to raise ...

Super fund rationalisation painful: PwC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... members have been put in products that were sold to them by financial advisers and reforms in the industry hasn't done enough to fix it, she said. Goodwin added advisers should be able to show clients switching super funds how much better or worse ...

BT Financial Advice cuts grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... 2018 - an almost $40 million reduction in earnings for the full year. BT Advice believes the October 1 deadline provides enough time to implement the change across its various IT systems, platforms and products. A prospective ban on conflicted remuneration ...