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Are Aussies super know-it-alls?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Australians have been branded superannuation "know-it-alls" yet there appears plenty of room for financial advisers to further educate their clients' knowledge base and improve confidence levels. The Financial Services Council and ING DIRECT launched ...

BOQ appoints former Wallaby as specialist chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
BOQ has appointed the chief executive of its specialist business. Dr Brett Robinson joins the bank from Icon Cancer Care, where he was managing director and chief executive. He has also held roles at Mondial Assistance and IAG and played for the Wallabies ...

Household is the future of advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
The future of financial advice will work at the household or family level, according to SS&C head of Australia and New Zealand Nadine Moore. Speaking at the 2015 Financial Standard Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum, Moore observed the growing role ...

Myonlineadvisers teams up with US robo firm

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
American portfolio crash-testing company, RiXtrema, has announced signing an exclusivity agreement and memorandum of understanding with wealth management firm myonlineadvisers. The joint venture provides wealth advisers with online tools which will ...

Tax conversation in a bubble

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
Tax accounting firm H&R Block has weighed in on the national tax debate, suggesting there is a danger the conversation is being held in a bubble between "pontificating politicians, policy nerds, lobby groups, academics and media types." H&R Block director ...

YBR robo-advice to make Celebrity Apprentice debut

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Yellow Brick Road's robo-advice tool, Guru, will be launched to the public via a Celebrity Apprentice Australia challenge. The Guru "pilot" was unveiled in June, and since then over 50 YBR practices are able to use the service. "Our network has been ...

Statewide appoints new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
After a search that spanned both Australia and the world, Statewide Super has appointed a National Australia Bank (NAB) general manager as its new chief executive. NAB general manager strategic development Asia, Richard Nunn, will leave the bank in ...

Medical risk leader joins Bombora

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
A specialist medical risk provider has joined Bombora Advice. MediBroker, founded in 2012 by managing director Aaron Zelman, focuses on risk advice solutions for medical professionals. It currently has over 300 clients and will join Bombora as a principal ...

Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
Investment managers have gone too far in pandering to the short-term investor according to Capital Group equity portfolio manager Jody Jonsson. Speaking at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) event yesterday, Jonsson said there ...

Aussie pension policy needs careful adjustment: IMF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Australia's complex superannuation system disproportionately benefits higher-income earners and "undermines the progressivity of the income tax system." The IMF's latest economic assessment of Australia says ...