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Deloitte pushes for cyber advisers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
Financial planners who don't exploit online technology could miss out, as technology savvy clients demand faster and more online-based services from them, according to Peter Williams, Deloitte Digital chief executive. Speaking at an IFSA Deloitte Future ...

Aviva chief joins IFSA board

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
Allan Griffiths, chief executive of Aviva Australia since 2003, joins the IFSA board this week. Griffiths takes the spot after the resignation of Dennis Fox, who retired from Suncorp where he was wealth management group executive in May. Griffiths has ...

IFSA slams proposed default fund

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
IFSA has shot down a proposal by an APRA principal researcher for the government to set up a single-option indexed national default super fund to receive SG contributions. Richard Gilbert, chief executive of IFSA, is skeptical of research highlighting ...

Ex-IOOF exec joins Bellwether

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
Boutique Australian equities firm, Bellwether Partners, poached former IOOF executive director and Perennial Investment Partners founding director Tony Hodges to join its board of directors. With more than 34 years of investment and financial service ...

Boost savings and cut interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
Boosting savings levels is not just about lifting individual retirement incomes but about making Australia more self reliant and less subject to volatile global economic forces, reveals new research just released by IFSA. The Investment and Financial ...

Aust and HK strengthen retail ties

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Hong Kong and Australian retail fund managers will be able to sell their products to investors in each other's markets following ASIC's signing of a mutual recognition declaration with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). For the first ...

ING Aus appoints two senior Life Risk execs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
ING Australia has appointed a new head of product and marketing and head of strategy in Life Risk. Gerard Kerr, formerly head of claims at Asteron will be joining the group as head of product and marketing. He was most recently the chair of IFSA's working ...

Sparks fly at APRA statistics forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
A forum convened by APRA to discuss their superannuation statistical surveys became one of the most heated seminars the industry has seen in years as the regulator reacted to heavy criticism that they are not properly reporting investment returns. Charles ...

Australia gets Chinese QDII status

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Australian financial services operators will now get direct access to Chinese domestic investment funds after Australia was approved as an official investment destination under the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) scheme. The QDII scheme ...

Finding integrity in finance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
Young, smart, and ambitious - some of the finance industry's up and coming stars gathered for the IFSA Future Leaders lunch yesterday to learn about integrity, leadership and how they can change today's wealth management industry. New financial planners ...