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AFA airs planner worries on fin reforms

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
Planning body AFA continues its dialogue with Canberra about proposed government reforms that will lift industry standards, on the whole, but could also hurt the future of small to medium size Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs). Richard Klipin, chief ...

Aviva Investors mines Asia for mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2010
Aviva Investors Australia is expanding aggressively into the Asian market to plug the $4.4 billion hole left by the sale of Aviva Australia's insurance to NAB/MLC. Craig Bingham, chief executive at Aviva Investors Asia Pacific, said the firm is working ...

Cbus Connect merger heralds investment changes

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
Cbus is in merger talks with electricity fund CONNECT - a move that could see changes in overlapping mandates and a face off between each fund's asset consultant, Frontier Investments and JANA. Cbus, the industry fund for the construction, building ...

Risk commission debate heats up

RUTH LIEW AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
The FPA's stance that commissions on risk products should remain has revived the debate on insurance fees and prompted two other industry bodies to have their say. The Financial Planning Association yesterday called for commission payments for risk ...

Securitor adds planners and expands research

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Westpac-owned Securitor has grown its number of practices by 16 over the past year and has set in motion a new strategy to offer planners more investment research and aid them in their work. Neil Younger, head of Securitor, said the dealer group, which ...

Women in Super to grant $10,000 scholarship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
Women in Super (WIS) members specialising in finance are invited to apply for a $10,000 scholarship to attend the Third AIST Global Dialogue in Hong Kong next year. The conference will be held from 30 May to 4 June 2010 covering governance issues and ...

Regulators tighten grip on hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
The US' Securities and Exchange Commission and UK's Financial Services Authority have announced plans to explore common reporting and regulations of hedge funds - developments that could set the template for Australian hedge fund regulation. The two ...

VicSuper and FSS win AIST scholarships

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Peter Lunt, executive manager investments at VicSuper and Cristina Cifuentes, trustee director of First State Super, have been named the winners of the 2009 AIST Educational Scholarships. The scholarships - valued at $10,000 each and sponsored by Tyndall ...

Bluedoor Technology on hiring spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
DST Global Solutions has been overwhelmed with the response from super funds after the firm bought administration technology provider Bluedoor Technologies and is hiring a number of financial services experts to develop the business. Ian Mathieson ...

Insurance needs more disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... products. Like investment advice, life insurance products can be offered either way, trailing commissions or fee-based (advisers "dial down" the commission"). But before moving the debate on the remuneration further, the public needs to be provided with ...