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Unlocking the door to adviser education

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... founder of Victorian based financial advisers, Wealth Enhancers. Accepting his award, Kelly acknowledged the tough competition he had faced from his fellow nominees and urged delegates to never give up on education. "I urge all of you to keep up your ...

ASIC releases equity market structure paper

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... November 2010 paper, Consultation Paper 145 Australian equity market structure: Proposals (CP 145), which looked at competition entry concerns in Australia and the April 29 2011 release of new market integrity rules for competition which ASIC called ...

ASIC appoints two new commissioners

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... consumer protection and ASIC's NSW regional commissioner until 2004. Before that he was deputy chair of the Australian Competition and Consumers Commission for three years, as well as chief executive of consumers' association CHOICE. Greg Tanzer has ...

AMP University Challenge winner named

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... Created by AMP and supported by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and Financial Planning Academic Forum, the competition is designed to raise the profile of financial planning among universities and give students the opportunity to gain first-hand ...

Fidessa expands Aust presence in time for Chi-X

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... system was introduced around fives years ago, however the ASX has taken the lead and is well prepared for the new competition from Chi-X. "In Japan, Chi-X has around 3% of the Nikkei within one year, and that is not too bad. So this will be an interesting ...

IFM strengthens push for government infra deals

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... opportunities so that's terrific for our investors, the issue though is that it means there's a heightened degree of competition for capital globally," said Brett Himbury, chief executive officer, IFM. Many of the privatisation opportunities in Europe ...

Invesco shuns global brands in Asian growth story

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... auto sector, internet, travel services and insurance are other areas where Yuen expects local companies to see off competition from global brands. "The whole world knows about all these fantastic global brands but in actual fact it is not really fitting ...

Second tranche of FOFA well received: industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... ISN's chief policy adviser. "This is a giant step forward for the professionalisation of the industry," adding that competition on product quality will now be the new playing field. Financial Standard contacted a number of large dealer groups and government ...

Sydney's financial centre ranking slips five places

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... GFCI scores faster. Offsetting this, Melbourne's ranking climbed six places. Illustrating the hot financial centre competition, according to the report, the average ratings for the top 25 global financial centre cities jumped 25% in the past four years ...

Dealer groups compete for planners: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... groups is that most planners are reluctant to switch dealer groups in the next twelve months, although the bad news is competition is still fierce between dealer groups with many planners being approached by competitor dealer groups. In the last twelve ...