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Managed accounts move one step closer to benchmarking

Members of the Institute of Managed Account Providers (iMAP) have formed a working group that will help develop the standards for benchmarking managed accounts (MAs), in a bid to help financial advisers compare MAs in a uniform format. Ratings agency ...

Keysbrook joins national best practice project

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
Western Australian based Keysbrook Financial Services has joined the "Best Advice" project, a national cooperative project between privately owned financial planning businesses to develop a best practice model for implementation in their individual ...

Germany lifts retirement age

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
... early retirement would be established. Dr Ralf Brauksiepe, a member of the German Bundestag and chairman of the Working Group on Labour and Social Affairs, said in a paper he wrote for the American Association of Retired People (AARP) that, "In view ...

IFSA CEO pushes for IFRS changes

... Europe and Hong Kong and represents over 160 million investors with $16 trillion in assets. Gilbert says that the working group is currently working on a position paper on the issue, setting out a list of solutions on how the accounting convergence can ...

IFSA get set to push product rationalisation

Product rationalisation is high on the agenda for IFSA next year, with estimates that if the reforms it suggests are successful it will save the industry between $120 million and $350 million a year in compliance costs. IFSA's December 2005 report outlines ...

SDIA launches stockbroker accreditation course

... industry. "This is a significant development for our industry. The SDIA Professional Program has been developed by a working group within the SDIA to ensure it is relevant and meets best practice in our industry." Horsfield added that the course also ...

IFSA says international tax bill will attract $15 billion in capital inflow

... offshore investors to choose to invest in the Australian financial services industry. For a number of years IFSA's Tax Working Group has focused its attention on this issue and for Gilbert the passage of the Bill signifies a major breakthrough that will ...

Labor calls for tougher stance on property seminars

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2003
... investors?" he asked parliament. Treasurer Peter Costello said the states and Commonwealth had agreed to set up a working group on property investment marketeers in August, and it was due to report back in March. But he said corporate watchdogs the Australian ...

Putnam scandal impacts BT ratings

... manages about $A5 billion of international equities on behalf of BT. BT has also announced it is setting up a formal working group of senior executives to assess developments at Putnam and to ensure client funds are managed to the highest professional ...

Federal, State and Territory governments to deal with property hustlers

... to find the most effective way to address this issue." He said ASIC would join all States and Territories on the working group, chaired by Queensland. It would report by next March.