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AMP appoints director of advice

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... director of advice. Machin will be in charge of paraplanning, product research, advice solutions and TapIn (adviser technical support) for AMP Financial Planning, Hillross and Horizons planners. He has worked at AMP for over 20 years. In his most recent ...

Advisers must fight for the future, not the past: AFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... per cent of people, the issue is the value," said Inwood. Not arguing this clearly meant advisers got swallowed by a technical debate around what is advice, said Klipin. Learning from other industries and consumer markets will enable advisers to cut ...

Full steam ahead for MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... that showed consumers generally find information about super to be confusing, too complex, and full of "impenetrable technical language". Australians also worry that 9 per cent of their salary is unlikely to be sufficient for people to properly fund ...

ASIC strikes back in Opus dispute

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... Commission's satisfaction", the regulator said. In September, Opus successfully argued that the cancellation was "based upon a technical accounting interpretation" that was in direct conflict with independent advice it had received, with the Federal ...

AMP, AXA and CFS planners choose own super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... going to get commission or paid for it, why would you recommend it? That's a pretty logical conclusion," he said. On the technical side, Morris said it could also be associated with the difficulty for planners to "access information" about the pricing ...

FuturePlus seeks more alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
FuturePlus Financial Services is advising its clients, including the $3 billion Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme (EISS), to reduce their international equities exposure and reallocate up to a combined 25 per cent into global listed infrastructure ...

FSP hires Mercer and AMP managers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... appointments of former Mercer paraplanning manager Nicole Dombrain and ex-AMP education manager Corinne O'Mara to its technical and operations teams. Dombrain takes on the role of technical and paraplanning manager. She replaces Gary Weiss, who who takes ...

Fiducian boosts SMSF services

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... advisers with an additional option, that Fiducian didn't provide previously to the adviser market," said Andrew Biviano, technical services & paraplanning manager at Fiducian. The move reflects a rising trend of wealth management groups ramping up their ...

Patron signs IOOF Pursuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... team of financial advisers." IOOF's Business Affinity Program (BAP) comprises a range of value-added services including technical, marketing, research and business optimisation support that can be customised to suit the dealer group's needs. "Independent ...

AXA Aus launches adviserweb

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... key issue, said Cimino, which is why information are still stored in main servers as opposed to being cloud-based, the technical term for storing information on the web. The site has an auto-save function, which means advisers don't lose data if the ...