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Drop commissions or get off APL: AMP

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
AMP has told fund managers if they want to be on the group's 1,600-strong financial planning network's approved product list (APL), their products must not include any commissions. Steve Helmich, director Financial Planning, Advice and Services at AMP ...

Helmich appointed Future2 chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Financial Planning Association's (FPA) Future2 Foundation has appointed Steve Helmich, director at AMP Financial Services as trustee and chair. Helmich spent two years as a financial adviser before being appointed WA state manager at AMP Financial Services. ...

Van Eyk resigns as executive chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Stephen van Eyk, founding director of the company named after him, van Eyk Research, has resigned as executive chair. A statement from the firm said van Eyk resigned for personal reasons. He remains a significant shareholder in the company and will ...

AMP clients buy more insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Planners have found that many of their clients are more inclined to accept insurance advice and take new or additional cover following the global financial crisis, said Michael Guggenheimer, managing director of AMP Financial Planning. "Obviously in ...

AMP planners to use Lonsec and van Eyk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
AMP Financial Planning today announced van Eyk and Lonsec as its preferred independent research house partners. The announcement follows consultation with planners and a tender process. AMP Financial Planning managing director Michael Guggenheimer said ...

AMPFP restructures research team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
AMP Financial Planning has recruited three new members to its products research team - including the replacement to former research manager Jerome Bodisco - and is in talks with five research houses as part of a fundamental review of its products research ...

AMPFP turn to IT to boost productivity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP), one of the largest planning groups in the country, is poised to attract more planners to its fold after plans to roll out a new IT system and the introduction of more consumer-friendly advice documents. Michael Guggenheimer ...

RIAA adds more members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
Super Safeguard, The FTSE Group - Australia and Trucost are the new members of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA). UBS Wealth Management financial adviser, Bernie Connolly; Fortuna Capital Partners consultant, Brookes McTavish ...

AMP posts profits, AUM falls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
AMP stayed in the black last year despite the market crisis although earnings by its wealth management arms dropped markedly after local and global markets went through the wringer. The group's Contemporary Wealth Management business, which includes ...

Toowoomba planner banned

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Desmond Blinco of Toowomba has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission from providing financial services for 15 months after evidence emerged that he is an undischarged bankrupt. ASIC banned Blinco because of his undischarged ...