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Super life code released

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
The Insurance in Superannuation Working Group is urging superannuation trustees to sign up to its voluntary life insurance code of practice, which will come into effect 1 July 2018. To eschew account balance erosion, super trustees under the code will ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
ARK Invest chief executive Catherine Wood holds the view that every stock in the firm's disruptive innovation portfolio is an early-stage growth stock, and this includes Amazon - a firm approaching US$600 billion market capitalisation. "The way we know ...

Adviser group edges on triple digits with new business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
Madison Financial Group has added another practice to its stable, as its growing adviser network nears triple digits. Marsh Financial Advice is the latest business to join the dealer group, led by owner and principal adviser Shelley Marsh. A former ...

Remembering Kevin Cottrill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
The long-serving chair of AMIST Super is being remembered for his unwavering advocacy following his passing last weekend. Kevin Cottrill was a director of the $2 billion fund for 22 years, having served as chair for the past 21 years. He passed away ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
Australians all let us rejoice and have ourselves a merry little Christmas! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report shows a sharp jump in employment in November no matter how it's measured. Look at the seasonally adjusted estimates ...

Centrepoint Alliance names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
The chief executive of an IOOF-aligned dealer group will take over leadership of Centrepoint Alliance in 2018. Shadforth Financial Group chief executive Angus Benbow has been named as Centrepoint's new chief executive, commencing April 2018. Benbow ...

Platinum sells $24m Asia stake

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
Platinum Investment Management is selling $24 million worth of shares in its Asia listed investment company, the underlying strategy of which was recently rated as one of the top-performing funds of its ilk by Morningstar. Platinum Asia Investments ...

Listed advice firm loses major shareholder

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
A listed financial planning and broking firm with over $40 billion in funds under advice told the ASX that a major shareholder and global financial services group has sold down its stake in the company. UBS owned 15.8% of Bell Financial Group; Bell ...

HNWI financial advice demand falls: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
New research from Investment Trends found there are less high-net-wealth investors using financial advisers compared to five years ago. The use of financial advice among high-net-worth investors (HNWI) has fallen to a five-year low, according to the ...

Three is the magic number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
And so it came to pass, The Fed delivered! The US central bank lifted the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%-1.50% following its 12-13 December FOMC meeting - as widely expected and telegraphed but more importantly, as the dot plot of December ...