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Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... during the GFC, when he set up his independent AFSL, there were about three different PI insurance providers in the marketplace. "Now there's one or two. Nobody wants to be in this space, so there's no competition and year on year the cost of premiums ...

MTAA launches transition to retirement investment option

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... income yielding assets such as infrastructure, property and alternative credit assets. "The product fills a gap in the marketplace, with few superannuation funds currently offering investment options designed to deliver capital stability and manage investment ...

NGS Super tool can help members move to SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... super fund (SMSF). The SMSF Profiler was developed as a response to the "significant volume of information in the marketplace on SMSFs which is often biased, conflicted or just plain scaremongering," NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said. ...

Pinnacle appoints distribution director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Palisade Investment Partners and the recently launched Antipodes Partners, to engage with the institutional and retail marketplace, both in Australia and offshore. "Hiring Matt is a real coup for Pinnacle. We have known him for more than 10 years and ...

AB managing director joins Dimensional

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... expectation of future expansion demands that we continue to provide high quality client service and messaging in the marketplace. Ross will be instrumental in our pursuit."

Hockey sounds tax alarm bells

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... OECD nation other than Denmark. He said it was particularly important to consider that in an increasingly globalised marketplace, relying on company tax (which accounts for 19% of Australia's tax revenue) was unsustainable. "Of course, we will continue ...

Mercer announces internal promotions

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... have achieved in Australia and New Zealand and reflects his ability to lead our teams to anticipate and respond to marketplace shifts that impact our clients and customers." Anderson has joined Mercer's global executive committee, reporting directly ...

Franklin Templeton recruits Towers Watson consultant

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... Australian fixed income specialists this year, we felt the addition of Felicity helps us better serve clients in our marketplace and address the growth opportunities we are seeing in the solutions business today."

OPINION: The Achilles heel of unbundled services

DARREN SPEIRS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... unbundled service providers would work collectively to develop a common approach to their interfaces across the SMSF marketplace. Specialist technology companies would assist providers to create robust, standardised interfaces that support integration ...

401(k) plans to reach $6trn by 2018

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... investment-only (DCIO) opportunities, refining their strategy and products, thereby creating an increasingly competitive marketplace," Sclafani explains. The findings are from Cerulli's latest report, Retirement Markets 2014: Sizing Opportunities in ...