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BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
The Australian market has opened flat as investors gave a lukewarm response to US Congressional Republicans agreeing to temporarily raise the debt ceiling. At 1015 AEDT on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 5.7 points, or 0.12 per cent, at ...

MLC dealer group the best: CoreData

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
A financial planning dealer group in National Australia Bank's network has won an award for being the best in Australia for the third time in five years. After completing a shadow-shopping exercise, research group CoreData said that MLC-aligned Apogee ...

Elixir adds business coach to consultancy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
Financial planning consultancy Elixir Consulting has appointed Geoff Pritchard as a business coach. Servicing Melbourne and Perth, Pritchard will provide business coaching, speaking services and corporate consulting to financial planning professionals. ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... debt ceiling by planning a vote to extend it for three months while political leaders sort out the budget and a long term plan for government spending cuts. LONDON - European share trading posted mixed results, with London gaining on Chinese growth data ...

PhillipCapital boosts local presence

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Singapore-based integrated financial house, PhillipCapital launched in Australia this week following the rebranding of Australian broking and advisory firm Octa Phillip. The move is expected to boost PhillipCapital's scale in Australia across wealth ...

MetLife launches retirement product

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... with MetLife on the product, which it offers as MTAA Super RetireSafe for several years. "The launch of our Group Retirement Plan product is a response to the current inadequate solutions to protect retiring Australians from the uncertainty of market ...

Would-be clients snub advice

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Potential financial planning clients are less likely to take up advice than they were last year, according to CoreData's 2012 Financial Planning Shadow Shop. The report details financial planners' ability to engage real buyers of investment, superannuation ...

FoFA readiness is all about client engagement: MLC

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Restructuring back office systems for the Future of Financial Advice Reforms is easy compared with preparing advisers for the different discussions they will have with clients, says MLC's Richard Nunn. Having targeted transparency and improving client ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... coordination on certain routes between the two carriers. It is regarded as a key plank of Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce's plan to turn around the airline's struggling international arm, which lost $450 million in 2011/12. National turnover was 245.4 ...