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Gen X and baby boomers clash on FP

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
... re-rating has exposed a divide between how retirees and younger investors perceive the performance of their financial planner. According to the Lifeplan University of Adelaide's International Centre for Financial Services (ICFS) Financial Advice Satisfaction ...

What members want

... what fee structure members wanted if they added extra services such as free insurance cover and access to a financial planner, along with frequency of newsletters and other materials. Once again, the majority preferred to pay the capped fee with none ...

Govt to address underinsurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... believe that the government should take a lead in tackling the country's chronic underinsurance, according to a financial planner poll. More than 50 per cent of the attendees at this month's ING OneCare Express roadshow said that the government needs ...

MTAA super revs up retirement seminars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
Responding to public demand for better super literacy, MTAA Super is running retirement planning seminars across Australia to educate members about superannuation and retirement strategies. Held in all states and territories, the 90 minute-seminars ...

Super switchers fall

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... respectively. In particular cases, a majority of superannuation investors may have been under the impression the financial planner was "independent", even when it was a subsidiary of one of the large groups of financial planners. Products obtained through ...

FPA chair joins FPSB

... financial planning associations. There are more than 105,000 financial planning professionals with FPSB's Certified Financial Planner (CFP) certification, including those in Australia. Dieters will be on board from 1 January 2008 for a three-year term ...

FPA offers free advice to farmers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... insurance and risk management, or succession planning for their property, this is where advice from a professional financial planner can make a significant difference," Dieters said. The FPA hopes to broaden the free advisory service across Australia ...

Power to the under-40s

Chris Browne, a Victorian-based financial planner who won this year's AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, said there is more to the under-40s segment of the market than meets the eye. Browne was a business development manager at MLC before he decided ...

ING OneCare Express speeds up insurance

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
ING Australia has launched OneCare Express, a web based insurance application that takes the pain out of the insurance process and creates a straightforward and intuitive system to benefit clients and advisers. Mark Vilo, ING's head of marketing and ...

AMP launches new planner academy

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
AMP Financial Planning has launched two new recruitment, education and placement programs, based at their new Financial Planning Academy in St Leonards, Sydney. The two programs, dubbed Horizons and Planner Pathway, are designed to take prospective ...