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24 September, 2021 |
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Latest News |
Money Management Original | Adviser numbers drop to new low | The financial adviser exodus continues in Australia with the number of actual advisers dropping below 19,000, according to Wealth Data. |
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Money Management Original | Life insurers ‘irrational’ practices need to stop | Life insurers in search of new business need to curb irrational practices and income protection benefit periods should be shortened to reduce premium increases, according to a panel. |
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Money Management Original | ACSI queried over sexual harassment double standard | In a Parliamentary committee hearing, the Australia Council of Superannuation Investors has been asked why it has been so concerned about sexual harassment issues in AMP but not in its own member organisation, IFM Investors. |
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Sponsored Content | FE fundinfo to make DDO Data and TMDs available to Advisers | Advisers will soon be able to incorporate DDO data and TMD documents in their portfolio construction and client reporting as FE fundinfo announces that they will be integrating DDO data and TMD documents into their suite of products, including the flagship research tool FE Analytics. |
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Industry News | ASIC updates anti-hawking guidance | The corporate regulator has added 12 examples in response to feedback received from its consultation on the prohibition of hawking financial products. |
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Money Management Original | Retirement income covenant to shape adviser strategies | Although the approaching retirement income covenant will explicitly apply to superannuation trustees, it will be impossible for advisers to pretend like nothing has changed, Challenger’s Jeremy Cooper believes. |
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Outsider |
Money Management Original | Lessons in playing the market | Having lived through several financial crises – without disclosing how many as it would be rude to bring age into the equation – Outsider has seen his fair share of market mistakes over the years. |
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Money Management Original | A brutalist WA quarantine | Outsider felt a number of feelings he had never felt before while watching a recent Parliamentary hearing – fear, dread, and slight panic. |
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Money Management Original | Lost connections | No one saw the COVID-19 pandemic – and our reliance on telecommuting – coming but after having the chance years ago to build a high-speed internet network, Outsider has become frustrated at seeing Coalition MPs laugh off the common dropouts of the system. |
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