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BT grows life insurance team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
BT has made two additions to the executive team of its insurance business, one from MLC and one from Suncorp Life. Former MLC national insurance manager Russell Hannah is BT's new regional manager for New South Wales and the ACT. He will lead the business ...

RG146 "insufficient" on tax education: IPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... of derivative products, employee share schemes, estate planning and in-depth coverage of CGT. Under the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) 2009, financial advisers providing tax advice need to be registered as tax agents with the TPB.

Govt moves to repeal super payslip disclosure rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... further complication is that, while the law in question - which is part of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) (SIS) Act - was passed in 2010, no regulations were written to enforce it. This means the repeal of the law will not make any practical ...

Cyber risks for local wealth sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Growth of cyber risks has prompted insurance brokers Marsh to appoint a specialist national manager focused on the growing risk product class. The broking group has just announced that Susan Elias will join them as National Manager - Cyber, in the company's ...

Remove adviser double tax: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
Self-employed financial advisers licensed through a dealer group risk being taxed twice under the current state payroll tax, the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) told delegates at its annual conference in Cairns. The AFA will lobby for an exemption ...

Enter AFA's best tweet competition

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is putting social front and centre at the AFA 2014 National Adviser Conference with a competition for "best" tweeters. Conference delegates have the chance to win "best tweet of the day" and "best tweet of ...

BT Super for Life launches video member statements

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
BT Super for Life customers will now receive their annual statement in the form of a tailored video, BT has announced. BT has claimedA the video as "an Australian first" and said members would receive a two-and-a-half-minute personalised video, addressing ...

Accountant pays $10,000 fine for $100,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
A former Perth company director will have to pay a $10,000 fine after inducing a 70-year-old investor to give his business a cheque for $100,000 and then using it for his own purposes. Andy Kay Hooi Lim saw his 12 months jail sentence wholly suspended ...

LGS rejects coal, tar sands

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Local Government Super (LGS) has announced it will be screening out companies that derive the majority of their revenue from coal or tar sands. In the most comprehensive fossil fuel screening policy adopted by a major super fund, LGS has included all ...

US insurance agency fined US$200,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... its latest action, the CFB found that an insurance agency, Lighthouse Title, violated the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) which prohibits providing "something of value to any person with an agreement or understanding that the person will ...