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Advice business offers enforceable undertaking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... were also found to contain further general templated information. Further concerns cited by the regulator included the discovery of outdated policies and procedures, with ASIC labelling FIA's file audit process as 'deficient'. In the EU documents the ...

AIA grows health insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
... alliance between AIA Australia and GMHBA, a not-for-profit health fund; and South African financial services provider Discovery. Launched in 2014, AIA Vitality rewards are linked to actions that aim to improve or maintain good health, such as physical ...

Agriculture high on industry fund agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... approach to foreign investment rules; and that an ACCC regulatory arrangement be established, leading to effective price discovery and transparency in wholesale agricultural markets and neutralise big supermarket and international subsidy impacts. ISA ...

Insurance giant partners to combine life and health

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... combined life and health insurance brand. AIA Australia is joining forces with health fund GMHBA and South African company Discovery; the three will work under the new brand myOwn and offer both life and health insurance, along with AIA's wellness program ...

ASIC permanently bans Queensland adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... perpetuate the belief funds were invested on behalf of his acquaintance and ultimately admitted to this misconduct upon discovery of his wrongdoing. ASIC said Logan's conduct was not a lapse of judgement, but a deliberate and repeated act of dishonesty ...

Instos unclear about ETF value

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... language to understand what's happening in the fixed income markets, Tucker says. Fixed income ETFs became a "point of discovery for many institutions" after the global financial crisis when liquidity in the bond market began to change. Individual bond ...

NAB committed to growing impact investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant, managed by Impact Investing Australia, and introduces a new Impact Investment Ready Discovery Grant, established by Philanthropy Australia in partnership with NAB. The Discovery Grant provides not-for-profit organisations ...

Technological advancement puts infrastructure at risk: KPMG

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... ever-changing technology environment as the impact of technology continues to widen and deepen. "The widening will come from the discovery and application of new technologies, new uses for existing technologies and increased collaboration between asset ...

Advisers must be tribal: Stackpool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 JAN 2017
... providing the best possible advice. "Creating trust with our clients is complex. As technical experts we can track the discovery process and continually check in and manage strategies and behaviours," Stackpool added. "In this way - as both experts and ...

Investors must be ready for grey swans

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... execution," Escobar said. "In many cases, cash can be considered as a flexible factor in the investment opportunity discovery and portfolio construction process supporting diversification and long term portfolio positioning." Escobar notes that despite ...