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Centrelink lends hand on fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Centrelink has tweaked its financial literacy program to reflect new changes to superannuation and tax rules. While many finance institutions have joined the financial literacy trail only in the past few years, Centrelink has been providing free financial ...

PIS names Singapore head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Financial advisory giant, Professional Investment Services (PIS), has appointed Ian Frost as chief executive of the firm's Singapore subsidiary. Frost has more 20 years experience in financial services and retail distribution holding roles at AXA Life ...

Best Advice close to federation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Project East West or the Best Advice Project has closed its books and gearing up to federate in April. The Best Advice group began 10 years ago as an informal group of advisory practices sharing ideas on how to best expand their business and serve clients. ...

Skandia extends services to retirees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Skandia has developed a new wholesale retirement product, Wholesale Retirement Solutions, which covers the accumulation, transition to retirement and income stream phases for retiring investors at wholesale fees. Skandia Wholesale Retirement Solutions ...

SimCorp edges back to front

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Financial service technology provider SimCorp is expanding its front-end technology offering to provide a more streamlined information product to its clients. Peter Hill, managing director at SimCorp, said the company previously offered a front of house ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Australian superannuation fund assets grew more than $125 billion last year despite a high allocation to equities in the face of falling markets, according to Watson Wyatt. The 2008 Global Pensions Assets Study surveyed the largest 11 pension markets ...

Deutsche boosts distribution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Deutsche Bank Asset Management has expanded its distribution arm, appointing Stephen O'Brien to head of institutional distribution in Australia and New Zealand and Cathryn Franks to retail national development manager. O'Brien previously worked at Tyndall ...

AXA's succession solutions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Financial advisors looking to sell their business must ensure it's operating successfully because inefficient practices risk being sold at almost 20 per cent below the industry average, an AXA report found. The 2008 AXA Succession Report was published ...

Fiducian FP attracts HNW clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Fiducian financial planners have refined their skills and are attracting more high net worth investors than ever before. Indy Singh, managing director at Fiducian, said the company previously focused on delivering simple effective financial advice but ...

Gunning appointed Global CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Peter Gunning has been promoted to global chief investment officer at Russell Investment Group. Gunning, who has been with the group for 12 years, replaces Tom Hanly who moves to chief operating officer at Russell Investment Group. No replacement chief ...