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Macquarie to close Risk Advice Specialists

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Macquarie has confirmed it will close Risk Advice Specialists, a boutique advisory dealer group operating under the Macquarie AFSL. Financial Standard understands that the five Risk Advice Specialists planners will transition to other licensees outside ...

Managers to battle for super pool offshore

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Competition among fund managers for the ever growing pool of retirement funds is set to move away from Australia and into international markets. Tougher conditions locally and the limited capacity of the market to absorb the $1.9 trillion in superannuation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
The share market is flat as the resources sector suffers from falling commodity prices. Phillip Capital senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said falling iron ore and oil prices overnight have pushed the miners and energy sector into the red. The ...

YBR boutique wins $50 million mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Boutique fixed income manager Smarter Money Investments, a joint venture between Coolabah Capital Investments and Yellow Brick Road, has been awarded a $50 million institutional mandate. SMI's Smarter Money Active Cash Fund (Assisted Units) also received ...

Global dividend growers suit retirement income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Adding a global equity income investment strategy to retirees' existing income strategies would add diversification and help address concentration risk in many portfolios, according to global active fund manager Capital Group. The investment giant ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following falls on Wall Street where energy stocks fell along with the price of oil. At 0755 AEDT on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down 14 points at 5,945. In local economic news ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...

AMP launches goals-based investment site

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
AMP Capital has launched a website to assist financial advisers in their conversations with clients about how to achieve their goals through different investment strategies. The site helps advisers identify the client's goals, risks and priorities. ...

Affinia develops life insurance advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
Dealer group Affinia Financial Advisers has unveiled The Strategic Advice Cashflow Tool, software designed for delivering "best interest"-compliant life insurance advice. Affinia's tool comprises a "needs analysis and cashflow calculator" and forms ...

Former Gold Coast adviser sentenced

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
A former Gold Coast financial adviser has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for false and misleading statements and providing advice without a reasonable basis. Ian John Weaver, working at Enhance Capital and The Salisbury Group during the time ...