AMP Bank records increase in customers switching to principal and interest loans

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AMP Bank has recorded a 14 per cent increase in the number of existing home loan customers switching from interest-only to principal and interest loans since the first round of... Read more continue reading

Lifespan Financial Planning throws weight behind advice industry fighting fund

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Lifespan Financial Planning, one of Australia’s largest privately-owned financial advice networks, has thrown its financial support behind the industry’s constitutional challenge to legislation to ban grandfathered commissions and encouraged its... Read more continue reading

ASIC extends relief for foreign financial services providers

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ASIC has extended to 31 March 2020 licensing relief for foreign financial services providers (FFSPs) to allow them to provide certain financial services to Australian wholesale clients without needing to... Read more continue reading

AXA Investment Managers to launch fourth impact investing strategy focusing on emerging and frontier consumers

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AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is to expand its suite of impact investment portfolios by launching a private market strategy focusing on opportunities that address the basic needs of emerging... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 13 September, 2019

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week The good news continued over the last week with the US and China trading goodwill gestures on the trade war front,... Read more continue reading

ASIC update on Royal Commission implementation

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ASIC has provided its second update on its actions in response to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (the Royal Commission). The Update... Read more continue reading

ASIC makes product intervention order banning short term lending model to protect consumers from predatory lending

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ASIC has used its product intervention power to ban a model of lending in the short term credit industry which has been found to cause significant consumer detriment. In its... Read more continue reading

Finalists announced for 2019 New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards

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The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2019 New Zealand Insurance Industry Awards. Now in its eighth year,... Read more continue reading

US/China trade headwinds will continue to be a drag

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US/China trade headwinds will continue to be a drag on global growth. In isolation, very small effect on the US, larger on China. However, the cross-over effects to manufacturing will... Read more continue reading

Latest appointment confirms Equity Trustees’ offshore strategy

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Equity Trustees’ London-based Fund Services business has been appointed Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) for the River and Mercantile Funds (ICVC), effective 21 October 2019. Since being established in 2006 River... Read more continue reading