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Trustees must raise bar on governance: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
Superannuation trustees should be subject to higher governance standards than listed company directors owing to the long term and compulsory nature of super, according to industry body ASFA. This week ASFA launched its updated Governance Best Practice ...

FPA appoints three directors

FPA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
Certified financial planners Neil Kendall, Peter O'Toole and Julie Matheson have been elected to the Financial Planning Association board. After 23 candidates stood for the election, Kendall, O'Toole and Matheson were elected as practitioner members ...

AFA announces Rising Star nominees

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
Every year, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) trawls through its membership base to find out the future leaders of the advice industry. This year, six advisers made it to the shortlist. AFA chief executive officer Richard Klipin said the final ...

CommInsure boosts retail life offering

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... CommInsure and Colonial First State's FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms, customers will be able to pay for their "Total Care Plan Super" insurance premiums through rolled over superannuation monies from selected funds. The company said that new renewal ...

Former planner pushes for cruelty free super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
UK financial planner hopes to introduce a successful tried-and-tested vegan super model into the Australian market through the launch of Cruelty Free Super. Melbourne-based Ethical Money launched the super fund in a bid to cater for those Australians ...

Ironstone partners advisers in property

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
The issue of investing in residential property, particularly through self managed super funds (SMSF), is highly problematic for financial advisers due to restrictions prohibiting them to offer property-related advice, according to Ironstone Group. Sean ...

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board upgrades tech

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... looks to move in-house certain investment operations previously outsourced to a third party. The $130 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the world's 12th largest pension fund according to Towers Watson, has gone live with SimCorp Dimension ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
Financial planners have a new tool on hand to work out how best to cater for their next generation of clients following a new wealth report that shows which countries are breeding more billionaires and how they are investing their money. For decades ...

Planner associations at different stages globally

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
The issue of whether Australian financial adviser associations should be doing more for their members and how they compare to their US counterparts has cropped up in the industry, with many divided on the topic as to the role an association should play. ...

Good vintage yields strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010