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Centrepoint establishes adviser transition program

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
Centrepoint Alliance has launched a transition program to assist experienced financial advisers launch their own advice businesses. Centrepoint, one of Australia's leading networks of non-aligned advisers, is looking to partner with experienced salaried ...

Life Insurer Code of Practice falls short: AFA

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has called for 'substantial improvements' to be made to the draft Life Insurer Code of Practice and is willing to see implementation delayed to ensure improvements are made. The call to the Financial Services ...

Super inefficiencies coming to the fore

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Blunt messages are being sent to the Productivity Commission as it prepares to conduct its comprehensive review of superannuation's competitiveness and efficiency. Responding to the Commission's recent draft measurement framework, the Australian Centre ...

QIC and Future Fund win Port of Melbourne lease

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
A QIC-led consortium has topped an IFM Investors-led group to secure ownership of one of Australia's largest infrastructure assets and acquire the 50-year lease at the Port of Melbourne. Known as the Lonsdale Consortium, QIC, in conjunction with the ...

CFS sets focus on financial literacy with Wealth IQ

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
Colonial First State (CFS) has launched a digital tool to assist financial advisers in increasing the financial literacy of their clients. Wealth IQ was designed to help advisers explain complex financial planning and investment concepts to their clients ...

Adviser feedback drives Elevate Online refresh

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
AMP has launched a series of updates to its Elevate Online platform, in the hopes of streamlining the adviser user experience. The web based platform supporting AMP's Elevate Online has been upgraded to simplify the quoting and application process and ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
When superannuation funds structure a global equity investment mandate it is beneficial to manage the currency component externally, new research finds. A study released by the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) implies super funds ...

Regal named best Australian hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Regal Funds Management has been crowned Australia's best hedge fund for 2016 at an industry awards ceremony in Sydney last night. Gathering the hedge fund sector's best and brightest, the Hedge Funds Rock and Australian Hedge Fund Awards - now in its ...

Retirement income opportunities begin early

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Choice chief executive Alan Kirkland believes bi-partisan government support is needed for a superannuation objective that makes the retirement income message clear. Kirkland says too often debates occur around super's purpose and whether people's retirement ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
The value of a business in the global investable universe can be reduced to "three circles," according to Robeco Boston Partners portfolio manager Joshua Jones. In Sydney to discuss Robeco's Boston Partners Global Premium Equities Fund, Jones described ...