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Avoid estate planning mistakes

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
Advisers may need more technical and compliance knowledge to make sure that they meet clients' needs with estate planning, said Equity Trustees Limited. Actually drafting a Will or documenting an estate plan may prove more complex than some had realised ...

Tackling direct insurance head on

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... focus on fine tuning their value proposition in an effort to erase the competition. Panel member, Chris Kirby, head of technical strategies at AMP agreed. He said that advisers need to ensure their value proposition is as clear as the direct insurers ...

UK becoming OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012

Super cap breaches tumble

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... warned that another spike could be on the cards if investors don't track their contributions closely. Gemma Dale head of technical services at MLC said that the cap rules are extremely complex and the reasons for breaches are numerous. She noted that ...

MMADX appoints head of sales

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... chief executive at MMADX said the firm was delighted to welcome McCarthy on board. "Mark adds a great depth of both technical and sales experience to the MMADX team. "We are very pleased to have someone of Mark's calibre join us as we get close to launch ...

ANZ fined over futures contracts

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... regulations, reported AAP. ANZ chief risk officer Nigel Williams said the breaches of CFTC regulations were inadvertent, technical and involved a small number of transactions. "However, ensuring we are compliant with regulations is a key priority in ...

ASIC bans two advisers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... rule quoted in the contravention requires a trading participant to have and maintain the necessary organisational and technical resources to ensure trading messages submitted by the trading participant do not interfere with the efficiency and integrity ...

AMP re-signs van Eyk for three years

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... "We're confident Morningstar will provide a flexible and competitive service to deliver specialist research, data, and technical support to enhance the current research efforts we provide to our advice network," he added.

ipac securities awards Vinva $1.2bn mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... likely to outperform their peers. Additionally, the firm has an active research process to identify the fundamental and technical factors that help predict future share movements. Rogers said that, Aussie equities is an important asset class in his fund ...

Altius: Role of fixed interest hazy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... expert. There is increasing evidence that many investors are confused by what fixed interest as asset class - which is technical in nature and not as intuitive as equities - really means, said Bill Bovingdon, chief investment officer of Altius Asset ...