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BT Financial Group proposes advice restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
BT Financial Group is reviewing its business model for salaried financial advisers, with plans to discontinue the Virtual Advice offering - resulting in significant redundancies. BT Financial Advice has proposed the scrapping of its virtual advice initiative ...

Advisers warming up to LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Adviser participation in the IPOs of listed investment companies has jumped by nearly 30% since July last year, according to a leading IPO specialist. SeedPartnerships director Chris Clayton says until last year about 80% of LIC floats were taken up ...

Life insurer undertakes strategic review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
In the lead up to an appearance at the Royal Commission, an ASX-listed life insurer has announced it is undertaking a strategic review. Freedom Insurance Group said the decision to assess its options was spurred by the release of ASIC's review into ...

Increasing trust not up to APRA: Byres

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Regaining the trust of Australians is a responsibility for the financial services industry, not the prudential regulator. Speaking at the Annual Risk Management Association CRO conference in Sydney this week, APRA chairman Wayne Byres said the Royal ...

Philanthropic forces shift asset allocation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Forces within Australia's philanthropy sector are shifting the distribution of more than $1 billion in annual grants and funding to non-traditional sectors. Speaking at the Philanthropy Australia National Conference yesterday, JBWere Philanthropic Services ...

Gonski asks philanthropists to have more heart

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
ANZ chairman David Gonski believes Australian philanthropists must give with more rigour as assets that have taken years to accumulate are too often spent on a whim. Speaking at the Philanthropy Australia National Conference in Melbourne yesterday ...

Managed accounts could outstrip super sector on CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
New retirement income products from the financial advice space could arrive sooner than those from superannuation funds but there is still a long wait for both, according to State Street Global Australia. In its May budget, the Federal Government said ...

BT launches new corporate super solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
BT has launched a new corporate superannuation product, leveraging the digital capabilities of BT Panorama. BT Super will provide members with access to 44 investment options, including lifestage, diversified, passive, sustainable and specialist funds. ...

No time for complacency: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
Not-for-profit funds have been vindicated by the Royal Commission's "damning" preliminary findings into the retail super sector but can't afford to be complacent, according to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. Kicking off ...

ETFs increasingly used to trade risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to exchange-traded funds in times of volatility, using them as a price discovery tool and to trade risk. Speaking at the Financial Standard Best Practice ETF Forum in Sydney yesterday, BlackRock Investment ...