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'Choice' dashboard, portfolio disclosure delayed to 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
The government has announced that the start date for the product dashboard for 'choice' super funds and introduction of the portfolio holdings disclosure regime will be delayed 12 months to July 2015. Rollout of the MySuper product dashboard is unaffected ...

CommInsure launches tailored SMSF insurance product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
CommInsure will launch a life insurance product tailored to members of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) next week. The product is an enhanced version of its Total Care Plan Super product, updated to meet the new requirements in the Superannuation ...

Nominations open for AFA Excellence in Education Award

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is calling for nominations for the seventh AFA Excellence in Education Award, which will be presented in October at the AFA National Conference in Cairns. The award recognises advisers who invest in themselves ...

Challenger backs $4bn global infrastructure business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
Challenger and Access Capital Advisers (ACA) are set to merge their infrastructure investment operations into a $4 billion boutique infrastructure business called Whitehelm Capital. The new business will start operating on July 1, 2014, with 48 employees ...

TPB releases tax advice definition in YouTube video

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has listed in a YouTube video the five requirements that advisers need to meet to comply with the definition of tax advisers. In a video uploaded to the TPB's YouTube channel last week, the organisation's chair Ian ...

Wilson HTM confirms managing director appointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
Wilson HTM Investment Group has appointed a managing director after Andrew Coppin resigned in July 2013. Former acting chief executive officer Sandy Grant was appointed managing director, as foreshadowed during the shareholders' annual A general meeting ...

EQT to buy ANZ Trustees for $150m

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
ANZ will sell its ANZ Trustees business to Equity Trustees (EQT) and form a new strategic relationship with the financial services provider involving a range of client referral and service arrangements. The transaction is expected to be completed in ...

NGS Super lifts premiums for older members

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
NGS Super has unveiled the design of its new insurance offering, provided by the fund's existing group insurer CommInsure, to be launched on 1 July this year. The new deal involves significantly higher premiums and lower total and permanent disability ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
The Bank of England (BOE) is expected to do what the ECB and the BOJ and the Fed did before it when it meets tomorrow night - that is, keep monetary policy steady as she goes and of course... provide "forward guidance". The only difference is that BOE ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have asked the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) to consider whether the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) should have stepped in to address what the association calls a "campaign of misinformation" ...