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Third Link appoints inaugural head of distribution

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Third Link Investment Managers has created a head of distribution role to assist with the firm's growth strategy. Vinnie Wadhera has been appointed as head of distribution for Third Link and will manage relationships between financial intermediary channels ...

St George names new planning heads in strategy push

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... Planning, as the group builds its advice full-service offer to Victorian customers. The St.George Banking Group advice channel, which covers St.George Financial Planning, Bank SA Financial Planning and Bank of Melbourne Financial Planning, is in the ...

Capital protected products shine in gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
Nervous market sentiment is prompting demand for defensive investments and sparking innovation with the Commonwealth Bank pondering new capital protected product structures. Moghseen Jadwat, head of business development for structured investments at ...

BT regroups for market push

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
The reorganised BT Financial Group will go head to head with the newly merged AMP/AXA and focus on its insurance and super products, developing a new platform and adding planners to its advice business. Brad Cooper, chief executive, BT Financial Group ...

Insurers want wireless relationship

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Life and general insurers plan to enter the wireless space and build smartphone applications to build interactive relationships with consumers, new research shows. The report by Telstra, Mobile Innovation - The Next Frontier for Growth and Productivity ...

Super Choice did not change super habits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... fund through their employer. Of those superannuation account holders that responded, 85.3% named their employer as the channel used to obtain their super products in December 2010, compared with 11.5% who used a financial adviser. By contrast, 67.7% ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
The wealth management industry in Australia and the Asia Pacific is set to outpace the rest of the world in IT investment over the next four years as the need for enhanced internet services and compliance technology fuels spending. According to technology ...

Big six use advisers for sales while clients confused on independence

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Financial advisers aligned to major wealth-management firms are continuing to direct the majority of the funds they establish to their parent fund manager, a study released today by Roy Morgan Research has found. The Superannuation and Wealth Management ...

Australia secures 30 TIEA partners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
Australia has formed tax information exchange agreements with 30 jurisdictions after securing partnerships with Costa Rica and the Special Administrative region of Macao, People's Republic of China. The agreements are formed to open the channels of ...

SMSF industry responsibility

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... industry, do we sit here and watch as our funds platforms and managed funds dwindle away and continue to accelerate into this channel of SMSF, cash and direct equities or do we ask ourselves, what is it we need to do to address this?" Perkovic said that ...