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Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Industry Fund Services (IFS) and dealer group Infocus Wealth Management will provide full financial advice services to First Super members. Under the arrangement, Infocus' financial advisers based in Adelaide will travel to locations around South Australia ...

Regional banks call for FSI reforms without delay

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Australia's four leading regional banks raised three key issues in their submission to the federal government's Financial System Inquiry Final Report recently. Regional banks including Suncorp Bank, ME Bank, Bank of Queensland and Bendigo and Adelaide ...

Regulatory changes stifling innovation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
The increasing role of regulators and ongoing regulatory upheaval is stifling innovation in the superannuation industry, according to research by BNP Paribas Securities Services and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. The research paper ...

Treasury opens discussion on tax reform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has issued the Tax Discussion Paper, raising fundamental questions about the future of Australia's tax system. The paper will open a debate until the 2016 election and will ideally inform the tax policy ideas the Government will ...

Trowbridge releases final report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
The final version of the Trowbridge Review on Retail Life Insurance Advice has been released. Initiated by the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), it was designed as an independent review following the Australian ...

Telstra Super to review NAS custody arrangement

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
Telstra Super will review its current custodian arrangements with NAB Asset Servicing (NAS), which has been the fund's custodian for over 20 years. "It is important to regularly review service providers to ensure that best practice service standards ...

FIIG inks $60m corporate bond deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
FIIG Securities has acted as the lead arranger for an unsecured corporate bond offering to raise up to $60 million for health and beauty supplier McPherson's Limited. This is the second corporate bond transaction that FIIG Securities has assisted with ...

FIIG assists on $40 million corporate bond issuance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
Information technology products distributor Dicker Data has announced a $40 million corporate bond issuance, with FIIG Securities acting as sole lead arranger for the transaction. The five-year notes issue has a minimum initial investment of $50,000 ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
2015 has already been a bumper year in financial services policy with super front and centre. Reforms to improve superannuation governance, competition and transparency appear to be the first cab off the rank. These reforms look likely to occur in a ...

Sunsuper embraces passive investment

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Sunsuper has entered into a strategic partnership with Vanguard to draw from the manager's experience in passive investment management. The partnership will give Sunsuper direct access to Vanguard's investment management. The fund will be able to "draw ...