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Hume advocates for affordable advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... taking industry and consumer feedback on how to improve consumer access to quality, affordable financial advice, closed on January 18. One issue ASIC is delving into is terminology and the best way to refer to scaled advice, and if it should be changed ...

EISS Super director joins Macquarie board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... non-executive trustee director to its boards. Mike Roche will join the Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank boards effective January 20, alongside Oz Minerals chair Rebecca McGrath. Roche has been on the EISS Super board since 2016 and is the employer ...

Fidelity enters UK advice market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... and retirement income advice supported by four pension transfer specialists. A further six advisers will be joining in January who will focus on investment advice across the range of Fidelity products.

Chief economist update: Japan's second state of emergency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... state of emergency. Prime minister Suga declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures on 7 January 2021 and extended it to an additional eight prefectures a week later. However, Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda ...

Platforms start to shake ERS impact

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... ERS withdrawals, platforms would have reported positive inflows of $2 billion for the period, Credit Suisse said in a January 14 note. "This reflects a fourth consecutive quarter of inflows ex-ERS for the industry suggesting confidence is returning post ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... intervening - to an 11-year low of 7.1087 in August 2019. To be sure, America's Treasury dropped the designation in January 2020 because: "China has made enforceable commitments to refrain from competitive devaluation and not target its exchange ...

Former Christian Super deputy CIO in new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... (NASFUND), a senior portfolio manager at QIC and the head of private equity at Victoria Funds Management Corporation. In January last year, he joined Christian Super as a deputy to its then-chief investment officer Tim Macready.

ASIC cancels stockbroker AFSL

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... Halifax Investment Services nearly two years after it was placed into administration. The cancellation took effect from 8 January 2021 and allows the licence to operate on a limited basis until 7 January 2022 to ensure its clients continue to access ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... third wave is much worse. Worldometers.info data show daily new cases of infections have reached 60,000 persons as at 4 January 2021 - almost double the 33,500 peak in the second wave and exponentially more than 7900 top in the first. So far, the British ...

AMP adviser numbers shrivel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... as at 31 December 2020. AMP Financial Planning lost the most advisers of any AFSL in 2020, with 345 departing between January and December. Between December 17 and December 31 alone, AMP lost 22 advisers. It was this drop that saw AMP finish the year ...