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Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
The 2017 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum is once again set to unveil the thoughts and forecasts from some of the top economic minds in Australia and the globe. Held at The Westin Sydney on 31 January and Grand Hyatt Melbourne on 2 February ...

AFA returning to its roots

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
Coinciding with its 70th anniversary, the Association of Financial Advisers launched an initiative to encourage member engagement at the grassroots level. New president Marc Bineham told Financial Standard the association has learned a lot of lessons ...

Aon Master Trust appoints new leader

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... intellect and passion for the industry will drive a new way of delivering the Trust to the market - with the client always top of mind." Dean joined Aon Hewitt in 1997 and was appointed a director of Aon Superannuation in 2012. She is a member of the ...

Rejected TPD claims deemed fair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2017
An independent review of 141 rejected TPD claims has cleared BT Financial Group of any wrongdoing. The review, conducted by an independent law firm with oversight from EY, confirmed that none of the 141 Total and Permanent Disability claims made over ...

Advisers must be tribal: Stackpool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JAN 2017
Australia is facing a rising financial epidemic and advisers must do more to help combat it. Certainty Advice Group managing director and founder Jim Stackpool believes Australians are suffering with growing insecurities around their finances and advisers ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
... expected to turn the "new normal" into the "new new normal". Equities on Wall Street have soared to fresh record highs. Never mind stretched valuations - they'll be revalued higher when Santa Trump's reflationary policies start and flow through into ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
Beam me up Scotty! That's the underlying message from Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget update where the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report showed the budget deficit beamed up by a cumulative A$10.3 billion over the ...

The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... The Fed was going to raise interest rates and China's economy was heading for hard landing. These two factors alone (never mind what's happening in Europe and Japan) sent financial markets - equity, bond, commodity and currency - into a tailspin. It ...

Fiducian boosts FUA by $44m

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
Fiducian boosted its funds under advice by $44 million after agreeing to acquire two Victorian practices. The total consideration for the practices, which are based in northeast Melbourne and Gippsland, is $720,000. Following the dual acquisition, Fiducian's ...

Advice practices pass health check

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... in to the ways advisers were positioning themselves for market disruption. Client retention and acquisition are front of mind, along with a forensic level of understanding of key financial metrics within a practice. Heading in to 2017, the report says ...