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Count launches new online tool

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Count Financial has launched a new online tool to help accountants ensure they complete all the necessary steps to continue providing SMSF advice to clients before the July 2016 deadline. The new tool, which launched on 13 October, helps users to understand ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
Australian shares looks set to open lower following substantial falls on international markets as investors take fright at new US data underscoring the fragile state of the global economy. At 0805 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures ...

New tech can't beat face-to-face advice meetings

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
Despite the emergence of new technologies such as Skype and social media, more than eight of 10 consumers still prefer an old-fashioned face-to-face meeting with their financial adviser. That's according to new research from State Super Financial Services ...

Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is putting social front and centre at the AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference with a competition for "best" tweeters. Conference delegates have the chance to win "best tweet of the day" and "best tweet of ...

ClearView launches new super product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
ClearView Wealth Limited has launched a new super and pension product and introduced a new administration platform. The super and pensions product, WealthFoundations, offers 14 diversified and single sector Investment Portfolio Service (IPS) strategies ...

Scale drove CalPERS hedge fund move

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Lack of hedge fund scale forced CalPERS to abandon the sector, not the inability of hedge funds to perform Last month the US$300 billion California public sector pension fund rattled global hedge fund managers when they announced they were cashing out ...

Accountant pays $10,000 fine for $100,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
A former Perth company director will have to pay a $10,000 fine after inducing a 70-year-old investor to give his business a cheque for $100,000 and then using it for his own purposes. Andy Kay Hooi Lim saw his 12 months jail sentence wholly suspended ...

Who should be in the 2014 #fsPower50?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Who will make it to this year's list of the top 50 social media influencers in financial services? The search begins. Last year, Financial Standard launched the inaugural Financial Standard Power 50 (#FSPOWER50) : our list of 50 financial services professionals ...

MySuper hurts low balance members: UniSuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
Members with very low balances are considerably worse off under the MySuper flat fee rules, according the UniSuper chief executive Kevin O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan said that since the MySuper rules did away with member protection, in some cases members ...

First State Super cuts investment fees

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
First State Super has radically reduced the investment fees across its domestic and global equities and fixed interest investment options, in some cases by more than 80%. The previous investment fee, for example, of the fund's Australian Equities option ...