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AMP Flexible Super adds new insurance and investment options

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
AMP has changed its insurance option and added new investment choices to its flagship retirement product, AMP Flexible Super. AMP said the new death and total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance option, Super Protection, will offer allow customers ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Yeah, it's good but... This is the overriding verdict of the country's oft-quoted economists to the latest Australian national accounts report that showed our economy grew by a larger-than-expected 0.8% (expectations 0.7%) in the December quarter and ...

Citi appoints head of consumer banking products

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Citi today announced the appointment of Deirdre Wroth as head of banking and wealth management products for its consumer bank in Australia. Wroth will be responsible for Citi's mortgage, deposit and insurance product teams, as well as the consumer bank's ...

CFS outlines post-awards plans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Colonial First State (CFS) has revealed how it will approach a post-awards environment, including the use of advisers and targeting business bank customers. The fund management and super arm of banking giant Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has ...

Providers not meeting demand for aged care products

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Product providers are being slow at providing advisers with tools adapted to the new aged care legislation coming in on July 2014. "For lots of advisers specialised in aged care, there are not enough tools and all the work around calculations is pretty ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Australia's First Lady of Financial Planning, Gwen Fletcher passed away peacefully in a Sydney nursing home on Friday 28 February. Gwen played a vital role in extending the financial planning profession beyond America's shores to Australia. It was also ...

Advice numbers and client claims hit PIS results

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
The fall in advice numbers and the increase in client claims hit Professional Investment Services (PIS) revenue, which fell 7% during the first half of financial year 2014. Centrepoint Alliance-owned PIS reported that net revenues fell by 7% to $11.497 ...

Brookfield shakes up board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
Brian Motteram has retired from his role as independent director of Brookfield Capital Management Limited, the responsible entity for the ASX-listed Brookfield Prime Property Fund. Motteram was a board member of Brookfield from 2007. His departure took ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
The Australian sharemarket has opened flat after a record session on Wall Street and a rise in the iron ore price. The US broad-based S&P 500 reached a new high, gaining 0.49 per cent to 1854.29, passing the previous high mark set in January. CommSec ...

FoFA changes could start before May: Sinodinos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos told the Senate Standing Committee on Economics today that Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) proposed amendments could come into effect "earlier than May." The senator was asked during the Australian Securities and ...