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Gender inequality still the elephant in the room

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
Despite significant inroads made to reduce gender inequality in the financial advice industry there are still changes needed to evict the elephant in the room. Following a recent industry conference, financial adviser at Thompson Financial Services ...

Social media ETF proves possibilities are endless

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
The launch of a new ETF which exposes investors to the companies most talked about on social media proves index investing is limited only by product providers' imagination. The new product, launched on the NYSE by Toronto-based alternative fund manager ...

US resistance to DOL fiduciary rule gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
Momentum is building against the US Department of Labor's (DOL) proposed fiduciary rule for retirement advisers with House Speaker Paul Ryan now joining the critics. The DOL has been working on expanding the fiduciary obligation since the GFC when millions ...

Catholic Super chief addresses climate conference

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Catholic Super chief executive and Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) chair Frank Pegan said global investors are acting on climate by pressing policymakers, fund managers and companies on the issue. Presenting at the United Nations Climate Change ...

The world of ASFA according to Twitter

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... the Treasurer said the Government plans to provide certainty in superannuation regulation (read: no more tinkering). His tweet was the Top Post of the conference where he said: "I want a super system delivering greater choice, stronger governance & more ...

Water, water everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Super Thursday. This is the term coined for the Bank of England's (BOE) data dump - announcing the monetary policy committee's (MPC) decision on interest rates, the MPC meeting minutes that led to the decision and the quarterly inflation report all ...

A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Planning director Liam Shorte and his employees follow a strict social media policy: "I have my own standards, 95% of what I tweet is professional and 5% will be personal, mostly about sports or TV." He told Financial Standard that advisers "need to ...

Empirics launches social analytics tool for super funds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Data company Empirics has launched MarketSuite Social, software that analyses social content to provide insights about member behaviour for superannuation funds. MarketSuite's insights are based on a "warehouse" of "digital media mentions", which Empirics's ...

ECT reforms pass Senate

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... contributions regime - [but] it's only taken eight years," said Meg Heffron, head of customer at Heffron SMSF Solutions, in a tweet shortly after Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced that the legislation change had been passed by the Senate. ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
... four months - but because Tsipras and those in the know already know that 'twas a done deal. Why so? Yannis Koutsomitis's tweet - "Ohwellohwellohwell.... Look who's the author of the Greek proposals pdf leak" (https://twitter.com/YanniKouts/status/570212150381301760/photo/1) ...