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Plan B refutes first mover claims on fee for service

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
... refuted "first mover" claims made by MLC's high end financial planning group Godfrey Pemboke, who last week touted their switch to a purely fee for service remuneration model as a first in the industry. Plan B, who has 19,000 clients in both Australia ...

MLC claims "first mover" on "fee for service"

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
... advice but clients with existing commission arrangements will keep paying trail fees, unless they ask their adviser to switch them off.

More meat in Meat Super

... Unfortunately, Addison said they have no plans to go public offer, which would allow people outside the meat industry to switch to the fund. However, meat workers who have moved on to other industries can still stay with the fund thanks to the choice ...

FPA stops short of backing member calls

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
... "advice-based" fee model. FPA chairman, Corinna Dieters, said she supports MLC chief executive Steve Tucker's calls for a broad switch to fee for service, but continued to fall back on the FPA principles, which promote fee disclosure and agreements between ...

Super adviser loses license after ASIC super switching survey

A Sydney-based superannuation advice specialist has lost its license after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) 'super switching' survey found it breached several compliance obligations. ASIC has revoked the license of SMS Advising ...

Quadrant gets ready as baby boomers cash in super

... said. Quadrant joins a growing list of super funds that have gone public offer since Super Choice, which allows members to switch funds more flexibly, came into effect last year. Michelle Baltazar

More aware but unlikely to switch super: CARE

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
Over three-quarters of respondents in a recent CARE Super survey said that it was more important to be aware of super than it was 12 months ago, but three-quarters also said they had not considered switching super post-choice. A quarter of respondents ...

Women like risk, men think too much

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... investment behavior. "Maybe we need to take the human behavioral element out of investing. And maybe we can design products that switch investors into different segments at different ages. Life cycles products are a great example of this," said McNaughton. ...

Accountants come under shadow shop radar

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
Unlicensed advisers and accountants will also fall under ASIC's radar, in the fallout of the shadow shopping survey results unveiled last week, revealing that over 22 representatives gave advice out of their realm. Speaking at the FPA's Sydney chapter ...

ASIC shadow shopping: the good, the bad and the ugly

The much-anticipated shadow shopping survey conducted by ASIC post-choice has revealed that around 80 per cent of financial advisers gave 'reasonable advice' or better, but an unacceptably high 20 per cent made consumers worse-off. And that is just ...