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Goodman makes play for $1.2 billion ING REIT

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Goodman Group, along with "three major pension and sovereign wealth funds", has made a move for the ING Industrial Fund, it was revealed this morning. In a statement to the ASX, ING said it had received a "highly conditional" proposal from the consortium ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Infocus planner banned by ASIC

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
ASIC has banned David Radovan, of Donnybrook, Western Australia, from providing financial services for five years after an ASIC investigation revealed concerns with the appropriateness of his advice to retail clients. The regulator found that Radovan ...

Fox elected AFA president

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Brad Fox is the AFA's newly-elected national president, taking over a two-year term alongside new vice president Adam Smith. Fox, previously on the AFA board as the representative of the GenXt (AFA's sub-group of members made up of the younger advisers) ...

SOA too much, too confusing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
Many Statements of Advice prepared by financial advisers contain too much irrelevant information that just adds to their preparation costs and bewilders their clients all while providing no extra compliance protection. Clare Wivell Plater, director ...

INQ buys HUB24 for $20 million

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Boutique stockbroker Investorfirst has acquired unified managed account (UMA) provider HUB24 in a scrip-for scrip deal worth $20 million. Investorfirst said the transaction was part of its shift towards becoming an "integrated financial services house" ...

Australians willing to pay just $300 for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... from what financial planners say is the break-even cost ($2,700) for providing full advice, or $1,200 for a simple advice plan. Recep Peker, Investment Trends analyst, called the dichotomy a "striking disconnect" between the expectation of planners and ...

AFA promotes female advisers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is addressing gender diversity in financial planning by launching an award dedicated to outstanding female financial advisers. The first AFA Female Adviser of the Year will be awarded at the 2011 conference ...

Zurich launches iPhone app for life insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Zurich is launching a new iPhone application that allows advisers to provide life insurance quotes to clients - catering to the soaring number of planners who use iPhones and want faster, simpler technology to help clients buy insurance. Zurich is providing ...

Advisers of tomorrow are 'choice architects'

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
Consumers are frightened of the future and if advisers speak to them as a navigator or designer, they will recognise the value of what advisers do. "They are asking you to be a 'choice architect'. Unless you speak to them like that, they won't know ...