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Unlocking the door to adviser education

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... their clients." Smith also presided over the inaugural AFA FChFP graduation ceremony, which saw 20 graduates take to the stage to accept their graduation certificate, AFA president Brad Fox among them. "For an association to be professional, education ...

Leenane Templeton Chartered Accountants adds financial planning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... restructured group will provide a wide range of financial planning advice to all customer types regardless of their life stage. Frith said "The Wealth Management service fits well with our national 'Self Managed Super Specialists' brand ensuring additional ...

Matrix alerts AustralianSuper of plans to sell

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... managing director Rick Di Cristoforo, after the company decided last Wednesday to seek expressions of interest. "We're at a stage of development where Matrix has a series of projects and processes that we are able to do as a normal course of business ...

Statewide and Local enter merger due diligence

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
The merger between StatewideSuper and Local Super is moving to the next stage after receiving in principle approval from the major shareholders of both funds. Chair of StatewideSuper, Nicholas Begakis, and Local Super chair, Juliet Brown, said the proposed ...

OneVue to expand its UMA platform distribution

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
Platform provider OneVue said talks are at an advanced stage with several new dealer groups and accounting firms to make its unified managed account platform available to them. Adviser groups currently using the OneVue unified managed account (UMA) ...

FPA reveals advertising impact

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
The Financial Planning Association claims that its $2 million national consumer advertising campaign is already reaping new business for its members thanks to a surge in online activity. Since the campaign, which spans television, print and online was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher on Thursday after the major markets in Europe and Wall Street gained overnight. At 0647 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 74 points at 4,009. No major economic ...

New online super tracking portal

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
The Federal Government has announced plans for a new online lost super tracking system, to relocate 5.8 million lost Australian superannuation accounts holding $18.8 billion. In a bid to make super consolidation an easier process, the Australian Taxation ...

Bulls see red

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... policy response from authorities. Coincidentally, the G-20, the IMF and the World Bank are meeting over the weekend. The stage is being set for an equity market rebound. All the signs are flashing red. And what do bulls do when they see red? They cha ...

Inactive clients trouble planning industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... there's little incentive to contact them." Radar noted that theTreasury has tried to address this issue and said "At this stage, I don't think that transferring the book would necessarily turn the grandfathered commission off or trigger opt-in, but circumstances ...