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Countplus profit hit by end of loyalty payments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Countplus has seen its after-tax profit fall 12.2% as loyalty payments paid by Commonwealth Bank ended. Net financial planning revenue was down 15.9% due to payments to 16 member firm franchisees expiring. Excluding the impact of these payments and ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Are we barking at the wrong tree? Let me rephrase that, we are barking at the wrong tree. It has been less than a month ago - before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus ...

EQT joins Calastone network

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Equity Trustees (EQT) has joined Calastone's automated funds transaction network. As a result, EQT can reduce the administration burden associated with trade notifications and fund transactions. "Previously, our processes to trade with platform operators ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Whoa! If this is an indication of things to come, then you can forget a lift-off in September, or in December... perhaps, forget all about it for all of next year. Yes Virginia, I refer to the drop in the Empire State Manufacturing Index. And girl ...

Altius fund added to netwealth platform

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
The Altius Sustainable Bond Fund has had its second platform listing since it was launched late last year. The fund will be available to investors and advisers on the netwealth platform. The Altius fund is a diversified Australian fixed interest ethical ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
Look ma, China's central bank must have read the piece I've written yesterday morning calling their 1.9% devaluation a mere speck. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) topped it up with another devaluation of 1.6% by the afternoon for a grand total of ...

Tasplan and Quadrant to use Acurity software

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Tasplan and Quadrant will use superannuation software provider Financial Synergy and its Acurity administration program when the funds finalise their merger in November. The move will also help prepare Tasplan and Quadrant for a potential merger with ...

Australians seeing Centrelink as "life insurance substitute"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
Too many Australians don't understand the purpose of life insurance and see the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Centrelink as effective substitutes, suggests research commissioned by Zurich and the Financial Planning Association of Australia ...

Macquarie adviser forged signatures, lied to clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
An authorised representative of Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) has been banned for six years after the regulator found that he forged client documents. Shawn Hickman engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on his clients' accounts between November  ...

Cbus moves insurance to TAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
Industry superannuation fund Cbus will move its group life insurance to TAL Life in November, ending its previous partnership with Hannover Life Re of Australasia. The move will deliver no premium increase to members, which is a significant agreement ...