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Limited advice from accountants face hurdles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... structural advice on superannuation could be impractical. Speaking yesterday at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) Conference in Melbourne to a crowd of almost 1,000 attendees, D'Aloisio said a limited advice licence ...

Good news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... 580,000 units. Housing starts are now 21.1 per cent higher than last year. More good news on housing. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo activity index rose to 17 in February from 15 the previous month - also higher than the expected ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive director of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association; and Tim Lyons, Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), assistant secretary. The fund's new chair is Angela Emslie - a HESTA ...

Women on top of SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... high women participation count," said Andrea Slattery, chief executive of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia. However, when it comes to account balances, women are still falling behind due to interrupted work periods ...

FPA loses chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
Jo-Anne Bloch, chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), has resigned - a decision that took the FPA by surprise. Bloch spent three years as chief executive at the FPA. During this time she led the revamp of its professionalism framework ...

AMP planners back fee for service APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... firm met with financial planners in May last year and asked whether or not it should wait for the Financial Planning Association (FPA) deadline or start as soon as possible. "We asked them if they saw any reason not to transition now and the resounding ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... Statistics is scheduled to release international trade in goods and services data for December. The Housing Industry Association and RP Data release their residential land report for the September quarter 2009. In company news, News Corporation will ...

Taggart receives OAM

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Jim Taggart, national president at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), has been awarded an Order of Australia medal. Taggart received the honour for his work in charitable, community and sporting organisations in Baulkham Hills. According to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Statistics releases house price indices around the capital cities in the December quarter. Also due is the Housing Industry Association's new home sales report for December and the Reserve Bank of Australia's index of commodity prices for January. In ...

DKN buys BMG stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... joined the Lonsdale network in the late 1980s when it commenced its financial planning operations. This 20 plus year association with Lonsdale now extends through to DKN. "When developing our succession plans, it was important to all our stakeholders ...