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PYSP puts SMSFs at risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... APRA-regulated fund in order to obtain life cover through the fund's group life scheme. Often these funds hold small balances and are not regularly contributed to. The Government's PYSP reforms will see super accounts deemed inactive for 16 months in ...

Advisers not prepared for exam: AFA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... approved courses. "The curriculum includes the code of ethics and code monitoring subject, no one can do that because they're not available yet," Anderson explained. "So the people sitting the exam this month are doing it just based upon having read ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... Shane Oliver backs him up: "So we see a higher risk of an Australian recession in 2020 -- risk of around 25% from 15% before." Not only that, the ABC also wrote shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the nation was already in a recession of sorts. "Australia ...

Advisers losing female clients

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... was alive," she said. "With women living longer than men, you can't afford to be losing all these clients. You can't afford not to connect with women." Powell's husband died while swimming the Busselton Ironman five years ago, as she and their children ...

Top performing ESG options revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... director of research Alex Dunnin said the analysis reveals that ESG options perform as well as investment options that do not take ESG principles into account. The amount being injected into ESG investment products on an annual basis grew by 37% in the ...

Cashwerkz, Praemium ink deal

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
Financial advisers using Praemium's integrated managed accounts offering can now access the Cashwerkz platform. The two firms have entered a "data feed partnership" that will allow advisers using Praemium to access Cashwerkz's marketplace offering from ...

Risk commission changes imperil advice practices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... if commissions were reduced further, the industry may be forced to shift to a salaried adviser model, ClearView said. This not only increases business risks and costs for life insurers, which will ultimately be borne by consumers, but will also see less ...

Super figures point to NSW victory

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... in a NSW fund are just $192.30 a year, compared with QLD's $457.80. Perhaps the results are an omen. Perhaps they are not. But in 2019, one thing is clear: NSW super funds take the cake, even if only by a small margin.

Chief economist update: The path of monetary policy according to Lowe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore." The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) decision to cut the official cash rate to a fresh record low of 1.25% takes the country's monetary policy into uncharted waters. More uncharted it would be if JP ...

Advisers wary of ethical funds, launch own rating system

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... leaf because 6% of revenue from Rockwell Automatic comes from services to the oil and gas sector and because Pengana does not specialise in ethical investments. "We're saying this is the leaf rating we would give this fund as an adviser knowing what ...