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AFS advisers question payment model

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
Former AFS Group advisers are questioning the method through which advisers get paid after a Court ruling has made it unlikely that they will receive the money they are owed by the dealer group. In the financial advice space, dealer groups usually set ...

Australia, a middle power between China and US

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
Australia is seen as a regional "middle power" which gravitates between China and the United States, and can benefit from the Asian giant's turn towards an economy more focused on consumption. "Australia is a middle power and it has a different concept ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
In the latest edition of Financial Standard we look at why accountants will be flooding into the advice space and what the impending withdrawal of US stimulus means for Australian investors. We also take a closer look at the biggest issues discussed ...

Accountants expected to flood advice space

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013

The life insurance sustainability challenge

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Australian retail and group insurance markets need a greater focus on risk selection so that insurers can return to sustainable long-term profitability, Alain NA(C)emeh, executive vice president, Australia and Canada at Reinurance Group of America (RGA) ...

Perpetual encourages women writers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
Perpetual has awarded Australian women writers through the Kibble Awards, an initiative managed by its charitable trust that consolidates its position after 20 years in the philanthropy space. Perpetual Philanthropic Services recently announced that ...

Regulator taking a "facilitative" approach to change

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
The Australia Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft reiterated his support to the financial services industry as it grapples with the implementation of regulatory changes, saying that the regulator would take a "facilitative" ...

Mercer calls for a MyPension product

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013

Yields above 10% up for grabs in unlisted property

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
Investors happy to forgo some liquidity can earn a yield as high as 10.5% in the unlisted property space. Specialist property investor Folkestone has been targeting real estate-backed social infrastructure such as early learning centres, police stations ...

Best Interest drives advisers away from products

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
The Best Interest Duty provision of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation is designed to make planners give comprehensive advice in a process where recommending a product is "the last piece of the puzzle." At the end of the advice process ...