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Financial Wisdom launches discounted recruitment service

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... for a practice would be to use a recruitment consultant where charges are generally based on a percentage of appointee's salary," he said. Financial Wisdom has also produced a range of tools, which Ballantyne said would free up planners to look after ...

MLC launches retirement stress test tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... easily explain the complexities of retirement risk to their clients." Advisers input details into the simulator such as salary, super balance, retirement goals and current contributions and the simulator then allows advisers to assume up to two market ...

Super for all shapes and sizes: QSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... the default option: "We know the age of our members, the environment they are living in, their account balance and their salary, but we often don't look at it, we ignore it," Vilgan said. "Funds are moving here and in the US towards target strategies ...

Former Astarra director permanently banned from fin services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... the Astarra Strategic Fund (ASF) Product Disclosure Statement and in receiving more than $388,041 in payments outside his salary as a reward for his involvement in the investment of ASF assets in certain funds. Liu was also found responsible for dishonest ...

AFA outlines stance on conflicted remuneration

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... advisers in cases where a salaried adviser coming into the business might take a stake in the business and still have a salary. "We believe that a final guidance is important for the industry but we have a number of concerns about it, some of which we ...

How advisers can double their business value

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... financial planning businesses do not have real earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) in the traditional sense. "Most make a salary that derives a living for owners. In the very best practices we have observed that where owners have implemented scalable ...

Make super review your New Year's resolution

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... average retirement savings gap per Australian is estimated to be nearly $80,000." MLC also recommends investors consider salary sacrifice superannuation contributions, diverting cash flow from a home loan into super, off-setting capital gains tax by ...

Financial service execs earn big bucks

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... executives continue to be among the best paid professionals, according to the Australian Financial Review's latest executive salary report. Unsurprisingly, Big Four bank bosses feature prominently high up the list with ANZ chief Mike Smith taking top ...

Retirees must invest in equities: State Street

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... of cash may be tempting, it is critically important for investors in their early retirement years who no longer earn a salary to have some element of capital growth in their portfolios," she said. "Investors who want their retirement savings to last ...

$1bn unpaid contributions returned

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... David Gibson, IFCC general manager, said these unpaid contributions include both compulsory employer contributions and salary sacrifice amounts. "By law, employers must pay their employees' super contributions on a quarterly or monthly basis. This is ...