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CHOICE, ISN hit back at associations aspersions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
CHOICE chair and AUSfin member, Jenni Mack, has responded to financial planning association remarks about the parliamentary FOFA Bill on Friday and said they were aware of the disclosure provision and should instead move on as the rest of the industry ...

Islamic fund opens doors to Australian investors

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... according to Yassine. The Australian equities fund will be heavily weighted to resources, in part because of the reduction of choice that an Islamic compliant portfolio manager has at their disposal. Crescent Wealth will not invest in companies that ...

AIA Australia scoops Insurance Industry awards

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... well as best Life Cover Plan with Asset Innovation, and best Business Overheads product with Money Management's Adviser Choice Risk Awards. AIA Australia's head of adviser services Pina Sciarrone put the wins down to a "strong commitment to product development" ...

Macq seals landmark $8.7bn admin deal with Perpetual

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... important so we wanted to partner with someone that could bring a greater scale and quality and Macquarie was the obvious choice." Around 110 Perpetual private wealth advisers already used the PACT platform, which will be open to the market when the ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
Jumpy! This is the word that came to mind when I was watching last night's trading action in the financial markets. Is it only me or has anybody else noticed that the "bounce around" in share prices have been shortening lately? It used to be a matter ...

PFA Footballers of the Year and PFA Harry Kewell Medal nominees announced

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... by the PFA Awards Committee. All Australian players are then asked to vote on a 3, 2, 1 basis to determine the players' choice as Australia's best. The nominees were announced by some of Australia's most prominent footballers including Simon Colosimo ...

Boutique focus with new super product: Bendigo Wealth

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
Bendigo Wealth has set its sights on independent financial advisers with its new super investment product with ten active and index funds, a cash option, one admin fee of $98 and fully flexible insurance options. The Bendigo SmartStart Super, to be ...

Government confirms ban on commissions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... remunerations with bans on any benefit, monetary or otherwise, given to a financial services licensee that might influence product choice or advice given to a retail client. The Government also cited several examples of how conflicted remunerations can ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
Institutional investors can profit from the European sovereign debt crisis by putting together a diversified portfolio of credit and capitalising on a more favourable risk reward profile, said Towers Watson's global head of fixed income manager research. ...

Conversation the key to speeding up SOA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... situation where only higher value clients are profitable, but if SOAs take six plus hours to produce they don't have much choice - it causes a blowout in the cost of advice per client." Recent reported research by Investment Trends showed that the average ...