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Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... same day in the final hour - after Financial Times reported that European officials are studying a bank recapitalisation plan. Yeah sure sure, I'll believe it when I see it. I'm sick and tired of discussing this to'ing and fro'ing out of Europe, aren't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... currency strategist Mike Burrowes said the Australian dollar is charging back on the news of a European banking recapitalisation plan. "That's been on a story around about European leaders understanding the urgency to act," he said from Wellington. "In ...

IOOF seals DKN takeover

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
IOOF Holdings has completed its acquisition of DKN Financial Group after gaining approval from the Supreme Court of Victoria. IOOF said in a statement to the ASX that it would now acquire all of the fully paid ordinary shares in DKN that it does not ...

SPAA rallies against off-market trading ban

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
The self-managed super fund industry is calling on the government to revoke plans to ban off market transfers with particular concern that larger funds are not subject to the same rules. The government's Stronger Super reforms package includes plans ...

AMP opens second retail planning centre

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2011
AMP has launched its second retail centre for financial planning in Australia, with plans for 18 new and experienced self-employed financial planners to join the walk-in retail financial planning centre. Based in the Victorian suburb of Camberwell ...

Government publishes core elements of MySuper draft

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... indications on the standards expected within MySuper. The APRA paper stated that all funds would be required to have a transition plan for transferring members to MySuper funds and the regulator will have strong oversight. Under the terms of the Stronger ...

ANZ Wealth appoints head of advice delivery

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
ANZ Wealth has appointed a new head of advice delivery to provide dealership services to its advice businesses. Raelene Seales has been appointed head of advice delivery for ANZ Wealth. In her new role, Seales will establish and lead the Advice Delivery ...

Boutique focus with new super product: Bendigo Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... flexible insurance options. The Bendigo SmartStart Super, to be launched on October 1, is an accumulation superannuation plan that advisers can alter to suit the needs of their clients along with the option to add their own optional advice fees. Among ...

Dealer groups 'like' social media enterprising

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
Financial planning dealer groups are responding to a groundswell of momentum to social media, but before they move into the public domain they are making themselves at home with enterprise social media networking. This relatively new concept, especially ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
Germany ratifies rescue plan, now for the rescue. With 523 'jawohls' to 85 'neins' and three abstentions, Germany's Bundestag approved the 21 July plan to increase the lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) to a,-440 billion ...