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Commission on risk products should continue: FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... expensive for clients. According to a press statement, the FPA Board confirmed that the first five of the FPA's six Financial Planner Remuneration Principles should apply to risk products, but agreed that Principle Six, which prohibits payments from ...

ABCs of advice at MLC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... a press statement, the MLC Advice Business School provides the training and support necessary for a salaried financial planner to start-up and run a successful financial advice business. "Many financial advisers begin their career in a salaried network ...

AXA revamps platform service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
AXA Australia is preparing to move its existing $14 billion platform business to an enhanced platform that uses DST Global Solutions' Bluedoor technology. AXA plans to move the firm's existing client book to DST's Wealth.net platform, which already ...

Sunsuper restructures advice services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
The $14 billion Sunsuper is combining its call and advice centres under one roof to streamline its member services offering - opening the option for more planners to come on board and service its members. The Queensland-based fund has created a new ...

Planners as fiduciaries to drive industry growth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Financial planners stand to more than double their average revenue from $169k to $363k and help increase national savings by $117 billion in 15 years, but only if the Government pushes through with industry reforms including a legal requirement that ...

Schroders scoops intl equities mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
Schroder Investment Management Limited (Schroders) has won an international equities mandate with WA-based fund GESB. In a press statement, GESB noted it chose Schroders following a review of the core component of its $2.7 billion international equity ...

FPA launches anonymous reporting service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has launched its confidential misconduct reporting facility, FPA Confidential. Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive at the FPA, said the system, which was developed in conjunction with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, would ...

Super Concepts overhauls website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
Super Concepts has revamped its website to allow financial planners easier access to technical research and plans to provide a separate login area for specialist advisers. Joanne Powell, national marketing manager at SuperConcepts, said the website ...

AXA overseas recruitment drive slows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
AXA Australia's financial planning recruitment drive in the UK and South Africa has slowed with the financial services firm adding only two planners from those countries in the past six months. The firm has promoted the opportunity to join its Australian ...

Challenger income and index fund boost profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
Challenger Financial Services saw net profit after tax (NPAT) rise in the first half of the financial year thanks to strong returns from its life company division and the expansion of its product offering. The firm's normalised NPAT rose nine per cent ...