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Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association urged the Financial System Inquiry to review the definition of 'financial product advice' in the Corporations Act and said that the current regime was "detrimental to innovation." In its second submission to inquiry ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... AustralianSuper at 47 and QSuper at 86. The list also included First State Super, State Super, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, REST, HESTA, Sunsuper, Cbus, ESS Super, Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super. Japan's Government Pension Investment fund ...

Higher adviser education should kick off on 2018: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
New financial advisers should be forced to hold a higher education degree from January 1, 2018, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said in its submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services ...

Coffey to raise $40 million via bond market

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
Professional services consultancy Coffey International will undertake an unsecured corporate bond offering to raise $40 million, with FIIG Securities acting as the lead arranger. FIIG Securities chief executive Mark Paton said the company was pleased ...

Senate bill challenges general advice definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has decided to get ahead of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) and is set to table a bill to change the definition of 'general advice.' The Senator will introduce the private member bill today during the Senate sitting ...

Mariner chairman resigns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Mariner Corporation Limited chairman Don Christie has resigned, effective today. Christie's departure comes just days after the resignation of chief executive officer Darren Olney-Fraser. The two resignations come after the Australian Securities and ...

ASIC lowers wholesale investor threshold to $2.5 million

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees with net assets of at least $2.5 million could be classified as wholesale investors by their financial advisers, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has determined. The regulator has issued ...

Van Eyk suspends redemptions on Blueprint funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Van Eyk has temporarily suspended all applications and redemptions on one of its funds after the underlying manager unexpectedly invested in a portfolio that was not in line with the fund's strategy. The van Eyk Blueprint International Share Fund (VBI) ...

Energy Super names new head of investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... chief investment officer of ESCOR Investments and, before that, an investment manager at Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Energy Super chief executive Robyn Petrou said the creation of the general manager, investments role would further provide ...

New PJC inquiry will "close the loop" on consumer protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
A new parliamentary inquiry to lift professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry will help close the loop on the consumer protection mechanism, Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall has ...