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Adviser Ratings revamps website in prep for FAR launch

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
Consumer-based adviser "review" service Adviser Ratings has updated its website to accommodate ASIC's first adviser register (FAR), launching at the end of March. The website, which currently has a database of 18,000 advisers, now provides users with ...

Advisers scramble to gather ASIC register data

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... advisers and dealer groups are in "a scramble to be ready" for the March 31 deadline to submit information to the public register of financial advisers, Veda head of wealth Mark Hoven said. Hoven told Financial Standard that advisers and licensees are ...

Perpetual forecasts $18m benefit from Trust acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
Perpetual reported that the integration of The Trust Company is ahead of schedule and is expected to deliver synergy benefits of $18 million to $20 million before tax. The company reported an underlying profit after tax of $62.1 million, up 30% on the ...

SFG acquisition boosts IOOF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
IOOF Holdings has reported a record half year growth, following the acquisition of SFG Australia. Underlying net profit after tax pre-amortisation was $80.6 million for the six months to 31 December 2014, with SFG contributing $16.3 million to the result. ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) professionals must steel themselves against the criticism levelled at the sector, said AMP SMSF head of policy and technical Peter Burgess, who set out to dispel some of the charges made against SMSFs in a presentation ...

Advice register more detailed than expected

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
The Treasury's public register of financial advisers will be more detailed than it was expected, the regulations introduced by Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg show. As expected, the regulations include the obligation for financial advisers to provide ...

Retail funds still unable to match industry fund popularity

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
Industry superannuation funds remain unbeaten when it comes to member satisfaction with their financial performance, a Roy Morgan survey confirms. Industry funds have been ahead of retail funds every month since the Roy Morgan Single Source survey began ...

Industry waiting on Frydenberg for adviser education guidance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The financial services industry is waiting on newly-appointed Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to make public the government's position on the Senate inquiry into adviser education standards. Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of ...

WAM Capital announces $100m share purchase plan

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... supports WAM's flexible mandate to actively pursue opportunities in the market place as they arise. Shareholders on the WAM register as at 7.00pm (AEST) on Friday, 9 January 2015 (being the Record date for the SPP) with a registered address in Australia ...

Independent expert lists CBA compensation challenges

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014
Promontory Financial Group has acknowledged that the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) program to compensate victims of bad financial advice poses a number of challenges. The independent expert has released its first report, following its appointment by CBA in ...