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Peering into the future

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... some types of multi-manager strategies and some super funds. Scully, who now heads his own consulting business, Decision Horizons, said platforms will need to do more to prove their value for money. "Platforms are deeper reservoirs of evil than the advisers ...

Addwealth seeks women advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... looking to expand their planner base but also practices looking to grow their businesses," said Tim Steele, director at AMP Horizons, in March. Last year, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney embarked on a global online campaign to attract women advisers. The ...

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

... advisers through 'main street' shopfronts. "We think we're being pretty innovative in the advice space. We've got the Horizons academy and we're moving early in this space [retail shops], and for us it is all about really lifting that profile, we think ...

Civic joins Financial Index Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... approaches - but they found us to be the best fit. "Because of their diversity of ownership, retirement objectives and time horizons can be quite divergent and the question of how the business is to be sold can be quite vexing. "Their merger with us ...

AMP hires planner recruitment head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
AMP Horizons Financial Planning Academy has appointed former RSP Recruitment Australia director Julia Byrne as its new head of planner recruitment. Byrne assumed the new role on 11 May and reports directly to AMP Horizons director Tim Steele as a member ...

Cavendish buys Bendzulla Actuarial

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... administrator of SMSFs and non-superannuation investment portfolios. "The Bendzulla business extends our operational horizons significantly and is part of our determined strategy to expand the business by widening our offer of products and services," ...

AMP targets women for planning

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... which occurs at the end of the month at the firm's Sydney headquarters, will involve a panel discussion from three AMP Horizons female graduates. The panelists will discuss why financial planning appealed to them and how it fits in with their lifestyles. ...

Hall charts new value investing model

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... maybe more on an ongoing manner given the volatility," he said. Value fund managers should also review their investment horizons so that short-term investors gain a decent rate of return. "People who invest for the long term are paid a very high rate ...

AMP raises Horizons intake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
AMP is increasing the intake to the Horizons Financial Planning Academy by 50 per cent to cope with demand. Tim Steele, director at AMP Horizons, said the bank is increasing the planner intake from 80 to 130 for the year. He said just under 200 financial ...

Retirement savings gap to reshape Aussie workforce

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... even if they are in their 50s, to avoid working for longer. "One strategy is to allocate their super into different time horizons and invest it accordingly," he said. Another option is to start a Transition to Retirement pension and take the minimum ...