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Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Frontier Advisors has attracted a former Mercer principal as a senior consultant amid plans to increase the independent firm's retirement solutions advice. Joining Frontier Advisors and leading its Retirement Solutions Group from 19 October will be ...

Myonlineadvisers teams up with US robo firm

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... advice they need. Now a customised Australian version of both RiXtrema and Advisor BioniX will be launched to the independent financial advice market early in 2016. Sutherland says one of the main benefits is efficiency. "The planner saves time on paperwork ...

CBA's advice review compensates 19 clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
... to increase the volume of cases it can assess in the Program at any one time," the report by Promontory said. The independent expert noted that "while significant progress has been made in retrieving customer files of CFPL customers, the retrieval of ...

New draft super governance standards released

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... measures follow requests from industry bodies ASFA and the AIST. The new draft legislation also confirms that the independent chair can be included in the one-third independent directors the period for filling a trustee vacancy has been extended from ...

ASX builds fund supermarket

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... the orders have been originated by a financial adviser. I think even when we drill down into that it's not just the independent financial advisers. It's actually some of the advisers from large, vertically aligned dealer groups," he says. "What's really ...

Independent advice licensee under ASIC radar

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... to review the firm's response to the findings in the original report and to assess its policies and procedures. The independent compliance consultant will report to ASIC and Sentinel will be required to address any deficiencies identified by its review. ...

Advisers looking to offer MDA services

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... Heather. "There's definitely a lot of interest in managed accounts across the advisory market but particularly from the independent financial advisory segment," he added. "Advisers who are thinking about the future of advice don't see wraps as the way ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... listing. But to Kelaher, that was just the beginning. In April 2009 he undertook a tripartite merger with Skandia and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), which has remained the group's brand since then. In 2011, the group embarked in the $94 ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... final and the only changes Labor will make to the tax treatment of superannuation." Labor's plan was costed by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office. The policy announcement follows an opinion piece Bowen wrote in News Limited media on 11 April ...

AFA can't give Trowbridge report "complete support"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Speaking at the 2015 FSC Life Insurance Conference, Fox expanded on the AFA's views, saying that while he applauded the independent, industry-led basis of the report, he did not feel it met the original goal of "getting a universally acceptable set of ...