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Advisers add 3% returns for clients: Vanguard

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... investor outcomes by focusing on the most important levers." The research highlights that "the value of good financial advice is much broader than investment selection."

Nationals pressure Treasury for RC into white collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in mid-2013. The inquiry revealed a number of cases of failed financial advice, especially within the advice arms of Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie Group. Both groups started to work with ASIC ...

NAB denies failing advice clients

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... misconduct. After Fairfax Media published reports suggesting "forgery" and "rogue advisers" were rife within NAB's financial advice arm, NAB Wealth group executive Andrew Hagger said in a statement, "When we identify or are made aware of issues in our ...

Assistant Treasurer to consult with financial advice stakeholders

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... an enduring framework to improve the qualifications and competence of financial advisers, and to enhance the financial advice industry's professional standards and ethics." To that end, he continued, the government would support a "co-regulatory model" ...

Law firm targets disgruntled advice clients using Twitter

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... they have received, and encouraging them to "do something about it." "Do you have concerns about the quality of financial advice you've received? Do something about it," Slater and Gordon said on a sponsored tweet sent this week from its official Twitter ...

MLC fund is Roy Morgan retail super fund of the year

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... not only deliver outstanding superannuation returns, but also market leading insurance protection and trusted financial advice through their super fund. "For example, Plum's Pre Mixed Moderate fund has rewarded members with above median performance across ...

Government urged to leave super taxation alone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... could be immensely proud. However, he added provision must be made to protect self-directed savers from poor financial advice. "The most important remedy is to lift the professionalism of financial advisers - a message that the SMSF Association has proclaimed ...

Advice register more detailed than expected

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... that "a financial adviser register will enhance transparency and go a long way toward improving practices in the financial advice industry. "It will help consumers to validate that their financial adviser is licensed, authorised and appropriately qualified ...

Grant Thornton appoints former KPMG principal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Accounting and financial advice group Grant Thornton has recruited Madeleine Mattera as national head of financial services and an audit and advisory partner. In her new role, Mattera will oversee Grant Thornton's financial services capabilities. Mattera ...

Embrace client interests or wither on the vine, advisers told

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
Financial advice professionals must embrace regulatory and legislative changes aimed at improving outcomes for consumers, irrespective of the impact these changes have on their businesses bottom lines. That's according to Quantum Financial Services ...