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Assistant Treasurer to consult with financial advice stakeholders

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced he will discuss issues pertaining to professional, standards within the financial services industry with all relevant "stakeholders" prior to making any policy decisions. Noting the value of the Parliamentary ...

AMP's Hillross crowns best advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
AMP-owned financial planning firm Hillross has handed out its Adviser of the Year, New Adviser of the Year and Firm of the Year awards at a ceremony this week. Sydney planner David Kennedy was crowned Adviser of the Year for his ability to "set meaningful ...

AFA GenXt roadshow connects knowledge and performance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will focus on education and knowledge as a means to drive business and client performance at this year's GenXt National Roadshow. More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the roadshows that are taking ...

AFA announces record enrolments for new curriculum

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced record numbers of advisers applying for its masters-level Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FChFP) designation. According to AFA chief executive Brad Fox, the FChFP curriculum has been ...

Fossil fuel divestment gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The fossil fuel divestment push is gathering pace, this time with 295 faculty members of Stanford University in the US writing to its board of trustees asking them to divest its $25 billion endowment fund from the investment sector. The Stanford University ...

Government explains Challenger annuity mix-up

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Department of Social Services (DSS) has given its reasons for changing the way it assesses Challenger's Care Annuity, saying it had mistakenly been assessing it on the grounds that investors in the annuity could not get their capital back. However ...

ACFS appoints execs from ANZ and EY

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
The Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) has appointed two senior executives from the financial services industry. Amy Auster joins as deputy director from ANZ, where for most of the last decade she worked as an economist, strategist senior ...

EY appoints family office specialist

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
EY has appointed a new partner to lead its Oceania family office services practice. Richard Boyce has more than 24 years' experience advising high-net-worth individuals and families including in establishing and running family offices. As a fifth-generation ...

Winners of advice research grants revealed

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
The Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) has awarded the 2015 FPEC academic research grants to academics from Deakin University and the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Recipients of the grants will be awarded $5,000 each to support the research ...

Foundation raises over $1m for biomedical research

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations have awarded over $1 million to biomedical research via the distribution of the annual Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research and 13 Establishment Grants. As the trustee of the foundations, Perpetual ...