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Actuarial certificate delivery speeds up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
Supercorp's self managed superannuation fund software superMate has teamed up with Bendzulla Actuarial to significantly speed up the delivery of actuarial certificates online. The new streamlined process for ordering certificates, which relate to exempt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... fears that the country would join Greece and Italy in succumbing to eurozone financial instability. The critically important gap between the rates paid by Germany and France, the two pit props holding up the eurozone, widened to a record 191 basis points ...

One-third advisers switch insurance providers: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
One-third of financial planners have stopped using at least one insurance provider in the last 12 months due to poor support and service. The Investment Trends 2011 Planner Risk Report surveyed 729 financial planners, asking about their satisfaction ...

Touchstone acquires Old Mutual assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
Touchstone Investments has agreed to acquire around $2 billion worth of mutual fund assets from Old Mutual Asset Management in the US, taking its funds under management to almost $10 billion. Touchstone Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western ...

Call for realism on planner services

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... the issue of improving clients understanding of what they can expect for their money. Galagher said there appears to be a gap between what potential clients think they are going to get and the services that advisers actually provide. "It will be of great ...

Sydney's financial centre ranking slips five places

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... almost equal footing, with Singapore only 5% behind. The report, however, contains veiled warnings for Singapore as the GFCI gap between it and Hong Kong in absolute terms has doubled, reinforcing the strategic significance of the SGX's recent failed ...

SMSFs feeling the age gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
The ageing demographics of SMSF trustees may prove to be the real issue for the sector, but that isn't holding it back with rising growth rates and surging fund numbers, heard delegates at a Women in Super event yesterday. Speaking at the event, Sarah ...

ISN submission targets advice requirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... all clients, existing and new, and must require disclosure of all payments. It is inconceivable that the current regulatory gap, which means clients receive no ongoing disclosure of fees from financial planners, would not be rectified." ISN also reaffirmed ...

netwealth aims to plug gaps in planner needs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Independent platform provider netwealth has launched a new online service for advisers providing more efficient back office capabilities to help cater for the requirements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms. netwealth said that the 'next generation' ...

Advisers ignoring estate planning gold mine

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
AMP and independent financial planners were warned to stop ignoring the wealth of referral and business expansion opportunities estate planning presents to the industry and instead embrace this market, in an industry address this morning. The AMP Estate ...