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Global fixed income trust launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... "[The trust] seeks out a broad range of opportunities to add value, including those involving global sector allocations, security selection, duration and currency management over a full market cycle," MFS said. MFS said the trust will focus on issuers ...

Planners can prevent financial abuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... Australian Banking Association calling for a national protective strategy. "The focus should be on client safety and security, protecting the dignity of the client," McGowan said. "Perpetrator tactics can begin as suggestions and escalate... Financial ...

How it can all go wrong

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... had a clean compliance record and claims he had no adverse compliance events. He said this "gave me a false sense of security", when the advice he provided was in those instances "sub-standard". "I think it comes down to should you really - as an adviser ...

First Sentier adds to global leadership team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation. The roles recruited for include global head of data, chief information security officer and chief audit officer. Justin Hourigan will commence in the role of global head of data. He was previously with Clover-More ...

Frozen fund pays investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... amassed assets worth $700 million. It invested its pool of money in debt assets, extending funds to borrowers under the security of first registered mortgages. When the GFC hit, the borrowers started defaulting on their loans. The fund froze redemptions ...

ASIC bans former Fitzpatricks employee

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... ASIC said the woman was convicted of fraud in April this year after the court found that she had used her own banking security token and a second banking token that did not belong to her to transfer close to $300,000 of client and corporate funds into ...

CommInsure eyes deferred lifetime annuities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... annuities. "We have been looking at them for some while. The July 1 regulation changes have provided certainty around social security means testing," CommInsure head of annuities George Lytas told Financial Standard. "They give retirees and planners ...

Stanford Brown eyes expansion

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... acquiring an accounting practice or hiring accountants. The move is largely driven by its clients, he said, but data security and concurrent planning were also important factors in the decision. The firm thinks advice firms will continue to spin out ...

Grandfathered commissions ban passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... unintended consequences related to products shutting down have not been dealt with, specifically the additional tax and social security losses consumers will face as their investments and super products are closed down." Last month, Lifespan Financial ...

Women overlooked by retirement income review

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
... policy settings and structural, economic, social and demographic drivers were combining to see more women without economic security in retirement. "There is a crisis in women's retirement happening all around us," Wood said. Weighing in, Australian Institute ...