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AMP enhances super products

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
AMP has changed its contemporary super products to the new short form Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) regime ahead of the government's deadline next year. It follows Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten's announcement earlier this year that PDS ...

AIA Australia launches life product upgrade

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Life insurance provider AIA Australia has upgraded its priority protection product to include severe diabetes as a crisis event under its benefits listings in response to skyrocketing cases in the Australian population. It is reported that some 275 ...

Super trustee guidelines for retirement estimates

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Super fund trustees are set to get a helping hand with predicting their members' retirement estimates. New ASIC guidelines aim to help super trustees enable their members to think about how much money they'll need when they retire so they can start ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... exhale" moment. Like I, me and Irene expected, volatility's picked up ahead of the unveiling of yet another European Grand Plan. It's Plan Numero Five this time. And like the anticipation that went before Plans 1-4, there are rumours, gossips, leaks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... the US and the world. HONG KONG - Markets rose in Asia on hopes that a meeting of European leaders will finally lead to a plan that will bring an end to the crippling eurozone debt crisis. Adding to the sense of optimism were reports that the leaders ...

AFS acquires QLD planning practice

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
Australian Financial Services Group has added a new independent planning practice to its ranks, acquiring QLD-based practice Alps Network to expand the Group's presence in Queensland. Already integrated into the Australian Financial Services Group Limited ...

Merger and new CEO for FMD

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
Two FMD Group independent planning practices are set to merge with news that FMD Financial and Reynolds Williams and Associates will merge on December 1. Former Perpetual Private Wealth executive, Lee Wapling, will head up the firm. The FMD Group has ...

van Eyk acquires Encore Group

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
Investment research firm van Eyk has acquired financial services consulting firm the Encore Group. Encore provides business development, sales, marketing, human resources, back office and succession planning. Encore Group founding partner Graham Peatey ...

BT aligned advice boutique appoints new chief

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
Former Commonwealth Bank and Westpac executive Steve Watts has been appointed to the newly created chief executive role at Queensland advice boutique MQ Financial Services. MQ operates under the Magnitude Dealer Group license, which is part of BT Financial ...

Christmas deadline for FOFA clarity: ANZ

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
ANZ Wealth has warned that Christmas is the "absolute drop dead date" for clarity on FOFA reforms before implementation costs double. Paul Barrett, ANZ general manager advice and distribution, told reporters in Sydney yesterday that time is ticking ...