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Bennelong appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... Funds Management has appointed a new non-executive director. Andrea Waters currently sits on the boards of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand, Citywide, CareSuper and the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation. Prior to this, she was also a financial ...

MyPlanner streamlines back-office for 175 advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... statement ordering. Commenting on the launch, MyPlanner managing director Philippa Sheehan said: "Financial planners and accountants should be focused on delivering objectives-based advice to their clients, which requires a lot of face-to-face time to ...

Advisers see value in degree

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... over a related bachelor's degree. The survey of over 500 financial advisers, including 400 financial planners, 86 accountants and 54 mortgage brokers, found that 55% of respondents believe a degree in financial planning will professionalise the industry ...

ASIC warns SMSF accountants to have backup plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
ASIC has warned SMSF accountants to prepare for a contingency if their limited Australian financial services (AFS) licences are not regulator approved by 30 June. Accountants who lodged their applications after 1 March 2016 face a "significant risk" ...

AdviserLogic appoints former Countplus director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... "in due course," according to AdviserLogic's statement. As well as formerly heading up the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Smith was a director at Countplus, a strategy consultant at MYOB and chief information officer at Solution 6. ...

SMSF accountants seek investment product knowledge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
SMSF accountants say their understanding of investment products is low and are calling on fund managers and brokers to service them with further education and support tools. This is one of several key findings in a survey of more than 1100 SMSF accountants ...

Award-winning adviser joins APESB

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... APESB during the first 18 months of the Board and serving six years as a member of the International Federation of Accountants SMP Committee," Roxon said.

Adviser Network launches SMSFit

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
Adviser Network has launched cloud-based solution SMSFit to enable licensed accountants to continue advising clients on their suitability to set up a self-managed super fund (SMSF). SMSFit will allow accountants to operate under a limited AFSL to provide ...

Ignition Wealth partners with SMSF administrator

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... administrator. Triple A Super provides administration, taxation, deed and transition services for SMSF advisers and accountants. Through the Ignition Wealth partnership, the firm will now offer automated advice. Triple A Super chief executive Brian Pedretti ...

Financial planners improve standing in annual trust survey

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... them 'very high' or 'high' for ethics and honesty, up from 24% last year but below highs of 28% in 2011 and 2014. Accountants came eleventh with a score of 51%, up from 45% last year. Bank managers were sixteenth with 30%. Nurses, pharmacists, doctors ...