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Guardian lowers PI insurance premiums for planners

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... Advice and Suncorp Financial Planning are set to lower professional insurance premiums for its planners. Guardian Advice also plans to create accreditation that will certify adviser professionalism and commitment to sustainable quality advice. Suncorp ...

Sinodinos defends "speedy" FoFA legislation

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... advice from conflicted remuneration; and amending grandfathering to allow for adviser movements. Sinodinos said that the plans to wind back some of the former government's FoFA reforms had not been received positively in some circles. "We've had a bit ...

Appleyard defends free SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
CleverSuper head Chris Appleyard has defended his organisation's plans to launch a "free self-managed super fund [SMSF] service for every Australian." Yesterday Financial Standard reported that the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

SPAA questions 'free lunch' SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... Clever Super intends to launch its free SMSF service in mid-2014. When Clever Super founder Chris Appleyard announced his plans to introduce the free service in the middle of 2013, he said the service would be "an end to $20 billion in admin fees within ...

New ATO powers to decrease SMSF 'delinquency'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
Plans to increase the power of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to penalise self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) on a sliding scale will provide a more nuanced way of penalising 'delinquent trustees', according to Superannuation Australia's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
... Fortescue Metals was up 18 cents, or 3.4 per cent, at $5.51 following its latest debt reduction move and the announcement of plans for a new gas pipeline to its mines to reduce costs. Global miner BHP Billiton lifted 70 cents to $36.63. The big banks ...

ASIC publishes Medcraft travel details

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... remainder is accounts for staff travel expenses. With these documents ASIC has also released Medcraft's international travel plans for the period January to June 2014. The documents show three trips adding up to a total of just nine days out the country. ...

Frontier research alliance expands to UK and Europe

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... investment portfolios. The addition of LCP strengthens what is developing into a formidable alliance," Moloney said. GIRA plans to expand the alliance into Asia and South America and looking to grow to a maximum of six members. "Our goal is to provide ...

netwealth launches mobile app

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

Platinum's Neilson backs Japan in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014