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Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... what we had paid for the advice, it wasn't going to put us back in a home," McDowall said. A subsequent offer of $50,988 in March - expressed by Westpac as its final offer - was declined on the same grounds. A complaint was then made to the Financial ...

Chief economist update: The colour of Beige

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... unchanged: "Economic activity continued to expand at a modest to moderate pace across the 12 Federal Reserve Districts in March and early April. Outlooks remained positive..." On inflation, "upward wage pressures persisted but generally did not escalate" ...

AI comes to SMSF administration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... development in the SMSF administration space comes after BGL added Praemium data feeds to the Simple Fund 360 platform in March this year. Speaking at the time, Lesh foreshadowed BGL's addition of AI to Simple Fund 360, commenting that BGL had been working ...

MLC, Colonial First State make key appointments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... platforms and investments, replacing the long-serving John Shuttleworth. CFS further confirmed that Wall was replaced in March by BTFG's former head of platforms, Kelly Power. Power resigned from BTFG in December 2017 to join the wealth manager. In his ...

Outgoing CEO name removed from critical AMP report draft

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... engaging with the business was consistent with their instructions." Meller announced his intention to retire from AMP in March. This story was updated at 5.26pm.

Financial services data breaches recorded

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... of an entity. The findings of the report arrive after damning results of a Kamino Cyber Security survey were released in March. The survey looked into the sentiment of cyber security in the financial services industry, finding that the owners of financial ...

Netwealth sells Pathway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... flagging the sale of advice subsidiary Bridgeport at the same time. Bridgeport was later acquired by Australian Unity in March. This marks the second acquisition by IRESS in less than a month, having acquired digital advice compliance business Lucsan. ...

Industry fund adds board director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... fund appointed a new board director. Vision Super welcomed Australian Services Union executive president Lisa Darmanian in March, bringing the number of women on its board to four. "Lisa brings valuable experience to the Vision Super board, and I'm looking ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... US CPI report gives credence to this expectation. The headline CPI shows the annual inflation rate accelerated to 2.4% in March from 2.2% in the previous month. Similarly, the less volatile core inflation (ex- food and energy) rate moved up to 2.1% from ...

WAM Capital founding director resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... capital for more than 53,000 shareholders. WAM Capital specialises in ASX-listed small-to-mid-cap industrial companies. In March, the LIC recorded an interim profit before tax of $199.4 million for the half year, up 49.8% on 2016, and returned 10.4%. ...