ASIC releases full report on retirement advice shadow shopping research

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ASIC today released the full findings of ‘shadow shopping’ research which examined financial advice given to people to help them plan for retirement. The purpose of Report 279 Shadow shopping... Read more continue reading

AMP Capital scales up global listed real estate and infrastructure team

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AMP Capital has scaled up its listed real estate and infrastructure capability, and will now deliver global portfolio management in-house following the appointment of several new portfolio managers/analysts. As part... Read more continue reading

van Eyk 9th conference wrap up

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Last week van Eyk held its 9th annual conference in Sydney. In a day packed full of high calibre speakers, delegates heard from an exciting lineup of international and local presenters... Read more continue reading

S&P assigns Aberdeen Fixed Interest Funds three stars

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today removed from ‘On Hold’ and assigned three-star ratings to three Aberdeen global and Australian fixed interest funds. The funds were placed ‘On Hold’ when senior... Read more continue reading

Risk averse investors face capital erosion

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Shaun Manuell, head of asset management at Equity Trustees Limited, says it is of concern that current commentary about the investor shift to bank deposits does not highlight the capital... Read more continue reading

Bank of New Zealand selects Oracle Financial Services financial crime and compliance management solution suite

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To help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of manage Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT) initiatives and compliance requirements, the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), a New... Read more continue reading

Future of Financial Advice reforms

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Responding to the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation tabled in Parliament today, John Brogden, CEO of the Financial Services Council, said the Bill failed to provide... Read more continue reading

Ratings on Schroders Australian Equity Funds unaffected by analyst resignations

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today announced that its ratings on Schroders’ Australian equity funds are unaffected by the resignation of two analysts, Kent Jensen and Alex Mears, for personal... Read more continue reading

ABN AMRO clearing helps customers in Asia-Pacific drive performance improvements

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Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, today announced that ABN AMRO Clearing (AAC), a leading global securities services provider which covers 85 exchanges worldwide and... Read more continue reading

FPA does not support Opt-In

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There has been much confusion and media speculation about the FPA’s position on Opt-In. To be totally clear the FPA has never and does not support Opt-In. We have worked... Read more continue reading