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Free advice sparks Financial Planning Week

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... parts of what we do," he said. "We are looking forward to spending the week meeting a whole range of people of different ages and from different backgrounds and sharing with them some of our expertise." Financial Planning Week will also include events ...

Planning pracs down 10pc value

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... announcements," said Birt. Birt said that the drop of ten per cent was an estimate with factors such as products, client's ages and fee arrangements all impacting on the outcome but that issues around grandfathering arrangements, watered down fiduciary ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Volatility is back in vogue for super fund rolling 12 month returns as they have again fallen back to 5.0 per cent for the 12 months to end March 2011. Three and five year returns are even less impressive at just 1.3 and 2.3 per cent per annum respectively. ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
Volatility is back in vogue for super fund rolling 12 month returns as they have again fallen back to 5.0 per cent for the 12 months to end March 2011. Three and five year returns are even less impressive at just 1.3 and 2.3 per cent per annum respectively. ...

Planners struggle to sell practices as values fall

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... 2009 to 3.0 this year. * Risk clients: from a range of 3.5 to 4.0 in 2010, to 3.0 to 3.5 this year. * SMSF clients of all ages: from 3.3 in 2009 to a range of 2.7 to 3.0 this year. * Corporate super clients: from 3.0 in 2009 to a range of 1.0 to 2.0 ...

Church ministers urged to save

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... our 'Boot Camp' is a step towards making this a reality," said Murphy. The boot camps target pastors and ministers of all ages, illustrating the need to start saving early. "As a 25 year old youth pastor I now feel like I have a vision for my financial ...

Twittering social media takes time

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... for Gen X and Y. "There is actually a lot of (social media) usage in demographics around the junior Baby Boomer and Boomer ages," she said. "We'll be embracing it (social media) and doing more in the future."

Commission ban to widen underinsurance gap: survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... was conducted by market researcher, Loyalty Zone. Participating in the survey were 300 people around Australia between the ages of 20 to 50 years old.

Review after Military Super changes mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
Military Super's switch to Towers Watson as principle investment consultant results in a rating review for SCM Wholesale Absolute Australian Equities Fund. Last month, the government fund appointed Towers Watson as principal investment consultant in ...

Super fund returns fall to just 3.7 pct

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
Poor share market returns are continuing to inflict damage on super funds with median returns for the 12 months to end September coming in at only 3.7 per cent. The results are contained in the latest SelectingSuper crediting rates survey conducted ...