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BT to double time advisers spend with clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
BT Financial Group is implementing an Advice Transformation program that aims to double the time advisers spend in meetings with their clients. BT head of Practice Management Wes Hall told Financial Standard that the program "will help advisers connect ...

Baker & McKenzie tells industry to prepare for SIV 'bonanza'

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... more in the pipeline. As at 30 June, there were 305 primary applications being processed by immigration, with each application estimated to take between six and nine months to process. The vast majority of applications have been submitted by Chinese ...

New adviser service speeds up dealer group creation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... provide a full range of licensee services and functions for boutique financial planning dealer groups including AFSL application through the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (AFSL). "They are able to outsource the dealer group services ...

Court freezes LM Investment Management founder's assets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... has had his assets frozen and been forced to surrender his passport by the Supreme Court of Queensland following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). LM Investment Management went into administration in March ...

Ironbridge to acquire 100% of Bravura

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2013
Ironbridge Capital Management (Ironbridge) is set to acquire Bravura Solutions (Bravura), after Bravura shareholders voted in favour of the proposal. At a meeting held yesterday shareholders in Bravura voted in favour of the Ironbridge subsidiary company ...

Aussie ETF industry comes of age

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2013
New record highs in the trading value in the Australian exchange traded fund (ETF) market show that the industry has come of age with investors increasingly using ETFs in sophisticated ways, according to BetaShares managing director Alec Vynokur. BetaShares ...

ASIC finds hedge funds pose no systemic risk

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Australian hedge funds do not currently pose a systemic risk to the Australian financial system, a new ASIC report has found. The regulator also found that qualifying hedge funds in the survey also use low leverage and appear to have adequate liquidity ...

Future Fund legally bound to protect docs in AustralianSuper feud

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... will defend its right to keep the documents confidential in the Victorian Supreme Court which is expected to hear the application between mid-September and mid-October. Australian Super would not make a comment over the confidential nature of the documents ...

APRA releases data risk management guide

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... regulated bodies, including super funds, banks and life insurers. The guidelines deal with risk areas such as data application, retention, storage and security, areas which APRA said have become more with increasing automation and "the criticality of ...

Super behemoths set to lock horns in Supreme Court

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... press release. "The Future Fund has refused to provide these documents. "Accordingly AustralianSuper has brought an application seeking pre-trial discovery of the documents in the Victorian Supreme Court." The Future Fund issued a statement denying any ...