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AFA and Map My Plan join forces

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... Financial Advisers' 2017 National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast, the partnership is seen as a simple solution to a wide problem for Australians. AFA general manager member services, partnerships and campus Nick Hakes said: "We want more Australians ...

Cyber training is advice value-add: AUSTRAC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
AUSTRAC director strategic intelligence and policy David Hawkins believes there are opportunities for financial advisers to value-add by providing cyber training services. Speaking at the AFA 2017 National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast, Hawkins ...

Super funds partner to tackle the coal problem

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... investment returns in the sector. The report analyses this issue from multiple lenses, including addressing the looming problem of communities dependent on coal-based jobs. It argues that investors have a key role to play in the "revitalisation of regional ...

First Super appoints board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... public policy areas. The sheer number of successful organisations he has started and nurtured points to his initiative and problem solving capacity," Watson said. "As a fund which has a significant proportion of its members living and working in rural ...

Factor-based investment demand strengthens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
Despite their complexity, the demand for factor-based investment products is forecast to accelerate over the next five years, latest research shows. Allocations to factor-based strategies among global institutional and retail portfolios reached 17% ...

AFA shines spotlight on peer learning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... said. "It may be as simple as the mentor offering an empathetic ear, or as complicated as discussing a complex business problem." The sessions are unstructured with advisers and mentors free to decide how it will run, at the close of which they may choose ...

Profit margin squeeze

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... household electricity costs, flat income growth, and relatively poor consumer confidence." Yes, Virginia, we're back to the problem that is Australian consumers. Apart from record high household debt to disposable income ratio, AiG points out "household ...

Digital assets overlooked in estate planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
Research from two Australian universities found that overlooking digital assets in estate planning could have dire implications for business owners. Most Australians (71%) are unaware of what would happen to their digital assets when they pass away ...

Interest rates on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
... tapping at the brakes a tad by now, or as both the ANZ and NAB reason, just to remove the "emergency accommodation". The problem is "Growth in housing debt has been outpacing the slow growth in household incomes for some time." Let's not bother with ...

To opt in or out of life insurance: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... balances. The recent life insurance parliamentary inquiry found group insurers were not doing enough to prevent the growing problem of employees owning multiple super funds and life insurance policies. The new Financial Standard weekly readership survey ...