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Asset Super launches into advice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
Asset Super is to offer its members access to low cost single-issue financial planning through Money Solutions. The planning service will be call centre based and Asset Super members who phone the fund's call centre will be transferred to Money Solutions ...

Pentacle expands distribution through planning groups

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
Pentacle Property Funds Management has entered into strategic partnerships with a suite of financial planning groups in a move towards widening distribution for Pentacle products. Pentacle announced it had entered into agreements with a range of groups ...

S&P signs up IOOF for planner distribution deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has partnered with IOOF to provide fund ratings and research to IOOF and its affiliated planner group Consultum Financial Advisors. S&P said more than 60 adviser groups have direct access to their ratings and research ...

AAA and Questus marching to the same drum

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
Adelaide based AAA Financial Group and Western Australian based Questus Capital have entered into a strategic partnership to streamline back office and support functions and establish one of the country's largest non-aligned planner networks. The strategic ...

Super funds need to educate members: Quadrant

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
Tasmanian super fund Quadrant said super funds need to start putting "something back into the community" by taking responsibility for the financial education of their members. Quadrant chief executive officer, Wayne Davy, said super funds should assume ...

Real estate commissions better than advisers': REIA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... the Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry, REIA said, "There is a strong incentive for the financial advisor to recommend products attracting the highest rate of commission, rather than those necessarily offering the best possible rate ...

Aviva snaps up Infocus stake

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
Aviva has acquired a 25 per cent stake in the predominantly Queensland based financial advisory group Infocus Wealth Management, adding its 30 offices and $1.2 billion in funds under administration to the Aviva financial services stable. Aviva's chief ...

New alternatives offering from van Eyk

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
Aurora Funds Management has been appointed by van Eyk as the responsible entity for its new van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Plus trust. The trust will be available through the multi-manager van Eyk Blueprint Alternatives Fund, which includes a line up ...

QIC and eG Capital form strategic alliance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
QIC, through its Queensland Biotechnology Fund (QBF), has taken a 20 per cent position in the biotech specialist investment house eG Capital. eG Capital, otherwise known as Emerging Growth Capital Pty Ltd, is a full service financial advisory and brokerage ...

Advisor charged with $1.5m fraud

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found that he allegedly defrauded almost $1.5 million from investors. Financial advisor Antonio Pisano appeared in Armadale Magistrates' Court in Western Australia to answer 33 charges of fraud relating to ...