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Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Australia's First Lady of Financial Planning, Gwen Fletcher passed away peacefully in a Sydney nursing home on Friday 28 February. Gwen played a vital role in extending the financial planning profession beyond America's shores to Australia. It was also ...

NZ Super sells forestry stake to iwi group

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super) has sold a 2.5% stake in Kaingaroa Timberlands, New Zealand's largest forestry business, to a collective of six iwi organisations. NZ Super remains the largest stakeholder in the business, with a 38.75% ...

Death and TPD dominate Super Complaints Tribunal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
More than half of all complaints made to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal in the December quarter related to death and disability insurance claims. Death benefit disputes made up 32.2% of complaints, while disability related disputes, including ...

YBR doubles wealth management revenue

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
Yellow Brick Road (YBR) has more than doubled its wealth management revenue in the six months to December 30, 2013. The company reported a 129% increase to $1.64 million in the first half of financial year 2014. However, the lending retail side of the ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
"As this prudent economy, which some people call Saving, is in private families the most certain method to increase an estate, so some imagine that, whether a country be barren or fruitful, the same method if generally pursued (which they think practicable) ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Whoopsie! No more free Chinese take-aways. Yeah, yeah, I know... I'm a day late and a yuan short in bringing to you the latest market moving event in the world's second biggest economy. And yes, I mentioned short because some speculators might be thinking ...

Instos bring ESG perspective to ASX companies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Superannuation funds must better engage with the boards of listed companies in order to bring a longer-term perspective to their decisions, according to the Governance Institute of Australia (GIA). In a new paper entitled, 'Improving engagement between ...

SFG growth not affected by FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
SFG Australia has reported a strong half year result, which it says was not affected by the implementation costs of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation. SFG operating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) ...

Zenith recommends AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
AllianceBernstein's Global High Income Fund (GHI) has been rated 'Recommended' by independent investment research provider Zenith Investment Partners. The Fund, which is being offered in Australia for the first time, has a track record of more than ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
He's either really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be ...