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Advisers head to Gold Coast for social media conference

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
Financial advice professionals will travel to the Gold Coast this weekend to better learn how to make technology work for their businesses. Starting Sunday 3 February, the Adviser Edge conference will put forward the sharpest innovations in financial ...

Conservative financial services job market in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... risk and compliance specialists to help them grapple with the likes of Basel III, Dodd-Franks and the Future of Financial Advice reforms, said the report. "Candidates in much of the financial sector will remain cautious and will prefer roles that offer ...

ISN welcomes financial planner fee guidance

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... working with the industry and funds to help implement the new measures. The guidelines are part of the Future of Financial Advice reforms which removed most sources of commission and aimed to increase the transparency of financial advice in Australia ...

FPA grief over new fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Australian financial services licensees how to follow new fee disclosure rules that are part of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. Brought in under the Federal Government's Stronger Super reform of Australia's retirement system, the FoFA ...

SPAA joins UN group

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Association of Australia has become the first Australian financial services group to join a United Nations independent financial advice convention. Yesterday the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) said it had joined the United Nations ...

Fin planners more upbeat over reforms: Zurich

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Financial advisers have become more upbeat about regulatory changes such as the Future of Financial Advice reforms, said insurer Zurich after conducting a survey. Zurich today said the latest measurement of its Risk Adviser Sentiment Index has shown ...

Advisers must ask clients about SRI investing: Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... that engagement should begin with the adviser and, moreover, thinks that the current wording of the Future of Financial Advice Reforms could obligate them to do so after 1 July this year. "There is an argument that the Best Interests Duty requires advisers ...

First State Super tracking well after merger

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... power to drive down investment fees and insurance costs, the increased scale has delivered a stronger intra-fund financial advice program, which will be a key development area for the not-for-profit superannuation sector in coming years, Dwyer said. ...

Energy Super tops extra benefits table

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... benefits reviewed increase to 48 from 32 the previous year. New services included social media, access to 'limited' financial advice, binding death nomination, online investment switching and transition to retirement products. Offering 38 extra benefits ...

Baby boomers stagger blindfold into retirement: REST

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Only 30% of baby boomers surveyed had actually sought formal financial advice, while the remaining 70 percent who hadn't regularly cited cost, lack of trustworthiness and lack of (perceived) need ...