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Super funds lead advice charge

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... to adopt. "The super funds have been forced to look at alternatives in order to provide reasonably priced, quality advice for many thousands of members. "They now pose a competitive threat to a portion of financial planners' client bases, by offering ...

Commission on risk products should continue: FPA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... said the FPA considered the barriers to changing risk products to a fee-for-service basis and felt that the cost of advice for life insurance would be too high for many consumers, resulting in further under-insurance. "Until we are able to deduct the ...

OAMPS hires former AXA manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... new sales and recruited 180 financial advisers. The insurance broking firm wants to grow its product suite in life advice for its 120,000 clients. "[Meysztowicz] will be focused on delivering a market leading licensee offering for advisers who specialise ...

More funds adopt intra-fund advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... advice arena. Plum Financial Services is currently working on a "graduated advice model" that incorporates intra-fund advice for members. The new service will be rolled out in the next two months, said Dave Woodall, general manager, client and member ...

Sentry selects van Eyk

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... encompass 330 financial advisers, access to iRate, van Eyk's investment research portal, as well as investment consulting advice for model portfolio creation. Each individual financial planning practice firm in the Sentry Group gets access to irate. ...

UniSuper rolls out advice service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... research employees and will be exclusive to its members and partners. "UniSuper has been providing limited financial advice for many years, our members told us they wanted access to comprehensive financial advice from someone who really understood the ...

Not proud of Storm involvement: Norris

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
... suspend repayments for Storm loan holders to the end of August and that it would pay for the cost of legal and financial advice for its affected customers. In early August, the bank announced customers affected by the collapse of the firm would be given ...

FPA 2009 Value of Advice Awards

FPA ANNOUNCEMENT  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... Australia's (FPA) 2009 Value of Advice Awards. The VOA Awards recognise FPA members who demonstrate 'best practice' financial advice for their clients, while also promoting the professionalism of FPA practitioner members. It is a great opportunity for ...

Aon appoints advice general manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
Aon Advice has appointed Jayson Walker as general manager of advice for Aon Wealth Management Limited and Aon Financial Planning & Protection Limited. He takes on this newly created role after acting as a regional manager of Aon's adviser network during ...

Paraplanners left out of planning reforms, for now

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... qualification," she said. "The issue is they don't necessarily deal with clients on their own or sign-off on statements of advice for example and that's our focus." This comes after the FPA and Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) both pushed for ...