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Fees4Service targets transitioning advisers

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
The Encore Group, Leading Minds Academy, CVM Systems, ili, and REMeX have banded together to launch Fees4Service - a consulting service targeting advisers transitioning to a fee-for-service model. The five firms have launched the service to provide ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... index contract was up four points at 4,563 points, with 2,310 contracts changing hands. In economics news on Tuesday, the Dun and Bradstreet business expectations survey for the December quarter is due, and National Australia Bank is to release its monthly ...

IOOF agrees to buy North

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
IOOF has announced that provided NAB acquires AXA Asia Pacific it will buy the AXA North platform, potentially removing a major stumbling block holding back the NAB-AXA merger. The focus on the North platform is because the competition regulator, the ...

Australian ESG expert claims world-first

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
Canberra-based researcher CAER becomes the first non-European organisation to get a Voluntary Quality Standard (VQS) badge for its work on assessing environmental, social, governance (ESG) and ethical performance analysis of companies. The certification ...

Seniors warn Coalition on super policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
Australia's largest seniors' organisation, National Seniors Australia, has warned the Coalition to scrap its plans to block the SG increase and the lifting of the SG age limit from 70 to 75. National Seniors Australia (NSA) chief executive Michael O'Neill ...

Business still unhappy with SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
Business groups are still resisting the increase in the Superannuation Guarantee levy, with 19 groups signing a declaration that they remain opposed to the increase despite the government's mining tax deal. The declaration was signed last week in Adelaide ...

Coalition's IR commitment locks in Award default funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
The Coalition's small target election strategy for industrial relations and their commitment to stick with the government's Fair Work Act means there will be no change to how default super funds are nominated in Awards. This follows Opposition Leader ...

Business still unhappy with SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Business groups are continuing to resist the increase in the Superannuation Guarantee levy, with 19 signing a declaration that they remain opposed to the increase despite the government's mining tax deal. The declaration was signed last week in Adelaide ...

The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
An iPhone app based on Paul the Octopus is undecided whether adviser remuneration should tilt towards fee for service rather than stay with commissions as the default payment method. The Ask Octopus app was developed in Brazil by uTouchLabs and is available ...

Platforms up 30pc to $391bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
The 90 percentage point turnaround in equity returns in the year to end March has propelled a 30 per cent bounceback in the size of the platform market. According to Rainmaker's recently released Advantage Report, platform FUA climbed back to $392 billion ...