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Wealth Enhancers boosts team with AFL talent

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Financial advice firm Wealth Enhancers is focusing on working out a financial plan for professional athletes and has employed ex-footballer Ben Warren as relationship manager within the Sports and Entertainment department. Warren is also a finance student ...

Valuation drop for WHK if merger falls through: Macquarie

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
WHK Group investors run the risk of seeing their shares fall by as much as 13% if the proposed merger with SFG doesn't go ahead, according to analyst research. On Monday SFG Australia said that it had presented WHK Group's board with a non-biding proposal ...

SMSFs drive ASX growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) are boosting the health of the local bourse, with $165 billion of their assets invested in Exchange products, making up 38 per cent of total exchange assets. Exchange Traded Products (ETP) is on top of the SMSF product ...

Online risk applications surpass paper-based: Asteron Life

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
Asteron Life research in 2012 revealed that the group was receiving three electronic-based risk applications for every two paper-based requests, prompting the insurer to redouble its efforts on addressing the technology aspect of providing risk advice. ...

Pivotal changes name to Affinia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... working for Affinia last year. The company, a dealer group that targets risk specialists, is backed by life insurance group TAL and its parent, Daichi Life. The name change follows the growth strategy that the company started a few weeks ago by hiring ...

Rethinking the value of asset consultants

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
From being the facilitator and ideas generator, today's breed of asset consultants are fast morphing into self-contained institutional investment platforms. Following a recent restructure, Russell Investments new chief executive for the Asia Pacific ...

New centre to lead advocacy for super fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
A new consumer centre designed to champion the rights of super fund members will be unveiled in July and if the founding committee gets it right, the centre could help Australians add at least $4 billion more to their retirement kitty. The Centre for ...

SMSFs warned over incapacity planning

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Often the risks of a self-managed super fund director becoming incapacitated are ignored, a leading lawyer has warned. Speaking last week at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) national conference, Bryce Figot, director, DBA Lawyers ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street closed mixed and Europe's main stock markets retreated as the Group of 20 finance ministers met amid growing talk of "currency wars". At 0631 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index ...

Simple diversification better than 'smart beta'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
keep your investments diverse and stay the course. That is the advice from Vanguard's chief economist in Europe, on the best way to design portfolios to adapt to the economics woes gripping the euro zone. Dr Peter Westaway explained how probable different ...