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TASA necessary for customer protection: accountants

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... still grey areas, but added that "there is an unnecessary concern" over TASA, as advisers have had three years to prepare for it.

BT upgrades Asgard and BT Wrap ahead of FoFA

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
BT Financial Group has updated its Wrap Desktop and AdviserNET to assist advisers prepare for their Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) obligations. "Advisers now have administrative support for most of their obligations around fee disclosure statements ...

Rainmaker Excellence Awards 2013

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... Year (Consumer Division) Winner CAN Commonwealth Bank of Australia Finalists SuperFit MLC Heritage Bank Heritage Bank Prepare For The Best BT Financial Group Future-Proof Your Retirement Challenger Anti-Valentine Campaign HOSTPLUS Best Advertising Campaign ...

AIST CEO asks for long term changes in super

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... something changes all of a sudden, it upsets people, but if you change something on the long term, you give them time to prepare for that." One of the main issues that regulators and superannuation funds have to look at is the post-retirement stage and ...

AFA ramps up membership campaign

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... massive IT challenge in all the industry," he said. He said the AFA will doubling its efforts to assist its members prepare for the July 1st deadline, when the new rules start to come into effect.

Co-operation key to avoiding pain from ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... fire from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are better off working with the regulator than prepare for a legal battle, according to a law firm specialising in the area. A seemingly endless stream of enforced undertakings, cancelled ...

State Street launches investment governance tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
State Street Corporation has launched a series of investment analytics tools to help superannuation funds prepare for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) prudential standard SPS 530 on investment governance. The tool allows trustees ...

Fin planners more upbeat over reforms: Zurich

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... manager of retail life and investments Philip Kewin. Kewin said programs run by dealer groups to help their advisers prepare for reforms appear to be working. Respondents were asked to indicate their sentiment across five key areas, using a seven-point ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... Bank (WB) - in its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report - warned the people of the financial market world to prepare for a global downturn of Lehmanesque proportions in the middle of the first month of 2012. "An escalation of the (European) crisis ...

BT hires new head of super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... has been called-out as core to the Westpac Group's strategy, given its critical importance in helping Australian's prepare for a better retirement and the expected growth in the industry," said general manager of superannuation Deanne Stewart. "The super ...