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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the economies of the United States, China and emerging markets were expanding, commodity prices were rising, the "Arab Spring" of the first quarter of 2011 has calmed and so did anxieties regarding the devastating effects of the tsunami/nuclear meltdown ...

Advisers to remain at centre of CBA: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... problems within its advice business, paying out $52 million so far as part of the Open Advice Review Program. "Under Annabel [Spring]'s leadership and Marianne [Perkovic]'s leadership over three years we have spent tens of millions of dollars changing ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
"Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel..." -Dusty Springfield Yes Virginia, the more things change... Here we go again, 'twas another deadline - 15 July - another missed deadline ...

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
What Greece has started, China's finishing. To be sure, the tragi-comedy that is Greece is far from over, not with crunch time moments ever so foreverly moved - 23 February was the first "this is it moment" for Athens, that became 24 Feb, that became ...

FSC revamps board, policy team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... Limited; Brett Jollie - MD, Aberdeen Asset Management Australia Limited; Damien Mu a^\'CEO of AIA Australia Limited; Annabel Spring - Group Executive, Wealth Management, Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Geoff Summerhayes - CEO Suncorp Life; and, Maria ...

Spring FG adds DomaCom to APL

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
DomaCom has been added to Spring Financial Group's approved product list (APL), which will allow advisers access to its property fund. "The DomaCom Fund is an innovative solution that opens property investing to a wide audience of investors who either ...

Spring FG to launch digital advice platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
Spring FG will launch a digital advice platform that will allow users to manage their bank accounts, investments and superannuation assets in one place. Spring247 will be available in July and has been developed by fintech specialist My Prosperity. ...

Buffett insurer partners with IAG

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Warren Buffett-chaired Berkshire Hathaway has entered a strategic partnership with Insurance Australia Group (IAG). The partnership consists of a ten-year 20% quota share agreement, with Berkshire acquiring roughly 90 million IAG shares (for a total ...

Industry reacts to ASIC register update

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... register is a good starting point." Speaking to Financial Standard, Keith Cullen, managing director of independent licensee Spring Financial Group, said the register was a "good thing" despite the work involved in getting Spring's advisers into the database. ...

Spring FG acquires robo-advice company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Independent licensee Spring FG has acquired Digifi Group, a company specialising in 'robo-advice'. Digifi's websites SharecafA(C) and Sharescene have more than 70,000 members and attract more than 7,000 unique visitors each day. The acquisition more ...