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FPA launches advice campaign

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will launch a marketing campaign aimed at encouraging Australians to seek financial advice. The "Value of Advice" initiative is aimed at people who have not used a financial planner before encouraging them to ...

Perpetual appoints new chairman and announces record profit

Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd (Perpetual) has appointed Robert Savage to the role of chairman following the retirement of Charles Curran with the company also announcing a record operating profit after tax of $111.6 million. The retirement of Curran ...

Lonsdale reaches $1 billion mark

Lonsdale Financial Group has hit $1 billion in funds under advice for the Zurich owned, BT badged administration platform, Wrap Account at least three months ahead of schedule. Lonsdale was not expecting the milestone to be passed until October this ...

MLC takes new offer to licensees

MLC Licensees will meet with the advisory boards of its self-employed advice businesses - Godfrey Pembroke, Apogee, Garvan and MLC Financial Planning - over the next two weeks to seek their approval of its new licensee offer. MLC Licensees general manager ...

Third operator of early release super scheme punished

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained Federal Court orders against Raymond Heard, the third operator of early release superannuation schemes that illegally freed up over $3.5 million of Australian superannuation benefits. ...

Former NAB currency options trader jailed

Former head of the National Australia Bank's (NAB) foreign currency desk, Luke Duffy has been sentenced to 29 months imprisonment following three charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The County Court of Victoria ...

Manager reshuffle sees reassessment of IOOF Perennial's Asian and Japanese offerings

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has lifted the Assirt 'on hold' status placed on the IOOF Perennial Asian and Japanese equities funds following a reassignment of fund managers and an integration of its Asian investment teams. The Assirt sector rating for IOOF ...

HESTA gets APRA license

The $6.5 billion health and community industry superannuation fund HESTA is the latest fund to receive its registrable superannuation entities (RSE) license form the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). HESTA follows HOSTPLUS, which received ...

Pacific Hydro instructs shareholders on IFM bid

Pacific Hydro has released Ernst & Young's independent expert report on Industry Funds Management (IFM) $5 per share bid for the group and its target statement unanimously recommending shareholders accept the bid. The independent valuers report has ...

MFS launches new fund in property trusts and firms ties with Babcock & Brown

MFS Investment Management (MFSIM) has launched Optimiser One, a unit trust investing in both listed and unlisted property trusts. The fund will be fixed for a five-year term and offers a guaranteed first year return of 9.6 per cent for the first year. ...