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Young Australians clueless about life insurance

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... Australians knows nothing about his or her life insurance through superannuation, a new report commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has found. Overall the report found 40% of Australians had either a poor understanding ...

AFA awards finalists announced

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has named the finalists of the adviser of the year, practice of the year and female excellence in advice awards. Finalists for the adviser of the year award are Affinity Private's Catherine Robson, Dartnall ...

FEATURE: The new financiers of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
... Wales poles and wires and Victoria's Port of Melbourne. A recent infrastructure conference in Sydney organised by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) attracted enthusiastic investors from around the globe, and gave testament to ...

Advisers ask for segmented education standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... a 'one size fits all' approach, but instead take into account individual advisers' areas of focus. As part of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Female Excellence in Advice Award semi-finalists roundtable, eight advisers reflected on the challenges ...

Ai Group defends super in awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... the industry super funds which benefit from the current awards system, some of its members do. The Australian Hotels Association, which appoints trustees to the board of HOSTPLUS, is a member; as is the Master Builders Association, which appoints trustees ...

Cbus launches self-managed option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... a Certified Financial Planner sourced under our Professional Practice Referral Program with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) of Australia." Cbus said it will send out letters to a "fairly large cohort" of members who qualify for the option providing ...

Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
The Financial Planning Association urged the Financial System Inquiry to review the definition of 'financial product advice' in the Corporations Act and said that the current regime was "detrimental to innovation." In its second submission to inquiry ...

Who will buy NAB Asset Servicing?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... wants to say anything, what do we know about the possible contenders? State Street The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) reports that State Street is Australia's fifth largest custodian, with AUC of $200 billion as of December 2013. According ...

Higher adviser education should kick off on 2018: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... financial advisers should be forced to hold a higher education degree from January 1, 2018, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said in its submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) inquiry. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services ...

Activist Simon Sheikh launches fossil fuel free super fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... research group Carbon Tracker and James Their, founder of Australian Ethical Investment and the Responsible Investment Association of Australia to the leadership team. Aside from fossil fuels, the fund also screens out companies related to tobacco, gambling ...