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Applications open for FEAL CIMA Scholarship

The Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) is now accepting applications to this year's Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) Scholarship. Applications for the $6,000 grant close on April 15. The scholarship will provide two fund executives ...

RG146 unveils planning stars

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Justin Pratt of Mercer has won the paraplanner of the year award by financial planning education house RG146 Training Australia. Pratt, an assistant financial adviser at Mercer Wealth Solutions in Sydney, took out the '2008 Paraplanner of the Year' ...

Jones Lang LaSalle and CFS form Sandalwood

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
International property specialist Jones Lang LaSalle and Colonial First State Property Management are joining forces to create Sandalwood - a new firm they claim is the first integrated retail property development and management service provider to ...

New voice for SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
A new self managed super fund body, the Self Managed Superannuation Member's Association Ltd, was officially launched yesterday - the latest industry initiative to boost the SMSF sector. Established in August 2007, the association aims to help the SMSF ...

Product-based fees create conflict

Financial planners will not be recognised as true professionals for as long as 'product-based' remuneration models exist, according to discussion papers released by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). The Institute has used an ...

Reverse mortgages stumped by slump

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
The reverse mortgage market continued its exponential growth last financial year, but housing market downturns, especially in NSW, tempered the surge, according to the latest SEQUAL/Trowbridge Deloitte Reverse Mortgage Market Study. Reverse mortgage ...

Comm Foundation partners with teachers on FinLit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation is partnering with Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) to jointly run financial literacy professional development workshops for teachers. The Foundation has a long history of being involved with financial ...

ASIC pleased with insurance industry

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has released a report examining the improvements home building insurers have made to their policies and whether they are providing customers with better access to information about the costs ...

Platforms: here today, gone tomorrow

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
New asset consulting frontier Kate Hage 315 Asset consulting has changed so much so that through the sheer volume of new managers, it has become a process of elimination and negative screens, according to key industry delegates. Speaking at yesterday's ...

Tribeca joins The Washington Post

The shareholders of leading education services provider Tribeca have given the nod to the group's acquisition by US-based Kaplan, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, for around $56 million. The proposed acquisition was flagged early December ...