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Last chance to have your say: Financial Standard weekly spot poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
A little more than one in 10 financial advisers will be reviewing client fee structures in the next financial year according to the latest Financial Standard weekly readership survey. This week the publication asked "If you are a financial adviser ...

New cash ETF for UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
UBS's newly-launched cash ETF is filling a gap in a market delivering little to zero returns, according to its head of fixed income. The UBS IQ Cash ETF is not a substitute for term deposits; it aims to deliver superior returns above the 1.5% cash rate ...

Tech industry opens niche markets for advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... level playing field," she said. "And even when you don't want to be an engineer, there are so many jobs out there that a little tech knowledge can open up a world of possibilities - in product management, design or in digital marketing." Zuckerberg was ...

Fund manager sells all shares ahead of crash

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... our management and performance fees lightly of course. Lack of upside in our models of course leaves an active manager little alternatives but to hand back cash at such an overvalued and dangerous time in this cycle. From a bottom up perspective Altair's ...

MetLife raises bar on group insurance awareness

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... in that parent being unable to work. Without insurance inside super, the vast majority of working Australians would have little to no form of lifestyle protection."

Life insurance market flat: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... the industry, a new report shows. Product innovation and intensive marketing activities by insurance providers have done little to stimulate demand in the direct life insurance market, which comprise 25% to 30% of the risk market, according to Strategic ...

Insurtech here to stay: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... development of insurance-based products and services. This is the smallest and "most troubled" segment because there is little activity to date, presenting untapped investment opportunities for insurtechs, the report said. Companies positioned as risk ...

ACSA names new deputy chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... administrative officer Daryl Crich, replacing RBC Investor and Treasury Services director, product Asia-Pacific Gordon Little. Explaining the board changes, ACSA chair David Knights said: "We are facing a period of significant operational change going ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... be driven by surging resources sector investment and growth in non-rural commodity exports" and "there is expected to be little contribution from...dwelling investment". And here we are in the year 2017 and that budget surplus has remained ever-so elusive. ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... concludes that rental prices in Sydney and Perth surged because rental markets were unusually tight for reasons that had little to do with the tax change. "I would say the original decision was an excellent one; we would not have some of the problems ...