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| 23 October, 2020 |
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| Latest News |
| Money Management Original | | ASIC confirms focus on advice which is 'limited and affordable' | | The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is trying to identify the real cost of providing financial advice at the same time as focusing on how the industry can better deliver advice which is “limited and affordable”. |
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| Sponsored Content | | Bridging the platform gap | | The digitalisation of advice is creating a breadth of technology partners & solutions for advisers to improve business & client engagement processes. But is it a case of less is more? |
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| Industry News | | More than 2,000 advisers depart industry in 2020 | | The latest data from the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions’ Financial Adviser Register has shown that the total net loss of adviser roles of 2,433 for the year do far, according to HFS Consulting. |
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| Industry News | | Super performance test top of advisers' minds | | Financial advisers have been querying whether the Government’s proposed annual superannuation performance test could lead to some MySuper funds to review their investment strategies and potentially lead to increased fund consolidation. |
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| Sponsored Content | | Don't hate plastic, change plastic | | Plastics are fantastically useful - if they're not dumped in the ocean when no longer needed. We need to dump single-use instead. Read more. |
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| Industry News | | ASIC tightens CFD rules | | The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has initiated a product intervention order tightening the rules and the leverage around retail contracts for difference. |
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| Money Management Research | | Pengana underweight for US small companies | | Pengana’s global small companies fund is underweight for US equities and believes there could be “pretty serious” outperformance in the international space in the near future. |
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| Industry News | | ASIC confirms LIF review approach | | The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lifted the lid on the underlying methodology of its Life Insurance Framework review. |
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| Outsiders |
| Money Management Original | | Not alarm bells, just a wake-up call on the US election | | Outsider must admit to currently having more than a passing interest in the outcome of the US Presidential election but he is clearly not as invested as a number of the online delegates to the Association of Financial Advisers virtual annual conference. |
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| Money Management Original | | APRA believes in global warming, what about the Govt? | | Outsider has noted it before but its probably worth noting again that while the politicians squabble over climate change in the so-called “Canberra bubble” the nation’s financial services regulators believe it exists and are exhorting insurers to take it into account in policy definitions and premium pricing. |
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