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Financial Planners want level playing field on commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... amount of stock bought, the Financial Review has reported. But Mark Rantall, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association told Financial Standard that if commissions encouraged stockbrokers or financial planners to provide advice in a certain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... Group and Pricewaterhouse issue their performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for June, and the Housing Industry Association (HIA) releases new home sales data for May. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes its index of commodity prices for ...

Equipsuper clears merger hurdle with Vision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... the Australian Services Union and two will be elected. On the employer side, one will be nominated by the Municipal Association of Victoria, one by the water industry and two will be elected. The ninth member will be an independent director, initially ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... no economics news scheduled on Wednesday. In equities news, Village Roadshow Ltd holds a general meeting, and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) heads into day two of its three-day convention in Perth. On Tuesday, the Australian ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... of Financial Advice reforms, answering questions but firmly rejecting criticisms. The tension was palpable at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) luncheon in Sydney yesterday, with advisers reminded to be polite in their questions. Emotions have ...

Du Pre-Alba jumps from ASFA to AustSuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is seeking a new, senior policy specialist following the appointment of their director of policy, Louise Du Pre-Alba, to AustralianSuper. Du Pre-Alba is leaving ASFA following the conclusion ...

AMP looks to uni for future planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... is about lifting the profile of the profession," said Helmich. The program is supported by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Financial Planning Academics Forum, with groups to submit a case study in response to a hypothetical client case ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... Rio Tinto Ltd chief executive Tom Albanese addresses an Australian Institute of Company Directors' luncheon, and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) opens its three-day convention, with addresses by Federal Opposition leader Tony ...

AFA meets Independents, Greens, Shorten adviser

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has met with the key independent MPs, the Greens and the adviser to the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, to discuss reforms for the advice industry. Chief executive of the ...

Super heavyweights join forces

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... Treasury a proposal to remove plans to introduce the proposed $500,000 balance threshold for individuals over age 50. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Self-managed Super Fund Association of Australia (SPAA) and the Financial Services ...