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Planners prime legal targets for angry clients

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... ratings houses gave Trio and associated Astarra funds glowing ratings. Finn Kelly, financial planner at advisory group Synchron, said advisers could not rely solely on research houses and needed to pay attention to see how they were remunerated. "They ...

Malaysia pioneers Islamic Finance framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Malaysia is stepping up its push to become a world centre of Islamic finance with the release of a Shari'ah Governance Framework for Islamic Financial institutions that will apply to Islamic organisations from June this year. Development of the framework ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
The Australian stock market was higher at noon on stronger showings by by miners and banks. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 15.8 points, or 0.32 per cent, at 4,884.3, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 13.5 points, or ...

Mobile internet tools take flight

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... the iPhone and iPad in November, and Zurich also has an iPhone app for life insurance quotes. In October, dealer group Synchron conducted its training course for advisers entirely on the iPad - setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. ...

Synchron taps online advice for growth

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
Hot on the tail of its successful iPad-based financial planning conference, dealer group Synchron inks a growth strategy underpinned by the 'category killer'. The group, which currently has 176 advisers, plans to have 280 advisers by the end of 2013. ...

Birth of the iPad adviser

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Dealer group Synchron's training conference next month for its financial advisers will be run entirely on an iPad, setting a technological milestone in the planning industry. Some 50 financial advisers who are attending the group's Next Generation Training ...

Don't limit adviser choice: Synchron

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Synchron has renewed calls for firms to not limit advisers to a 'tight' list of platforms, products or risk providers to chase volume bonuses. In a press release, Synchron said it was not in advisers or their clients' best interest to artificially limit ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Whew! Thank goodness we got some reprieve from the avalanche of economic data released over the past few days. Wall Street closed flat to up overnight as it nervously awaits what the mother of all economic releases - the US Non-farm Payrolls report ...

Synchron grows adviser base by 40pc

COMNPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Non-aligned dealer group Synchron has increased its adviser numbers by 40 per cent with the appointment of 44 new advisers last year. Synchron now has 154 advisers. The dealer group aims to have 200 advisers on board by Christmas 2010. Of these, 20 ...

ASIC power boost could trigger witch-hunts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... restoring market confidence and prevent further insider trading cases. John Prossor, director and compliance manager at Synchron, said it was time "ASIC were given [investigative] teeth" to deal with these offences. The changes will bring the critical ...