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MGD sets focus on risk and succession

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Boutique financial services firm, MGD Wealth recently appointed a director of risk and succession. Joining the MGD team is Andrew Proudfoot, who will focus on the provision of financial risk mitigation strategies and high level strategic business succession ...

Fortnum adds five new practices

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Independently-owned dealer group Fortnum Financial Advisers has broadened its reach across three Australian cities with five practices joining the group's boutique offering, FPSA Group (FPSA). Lifeguard Financial Services, APS Financial Planning and ...

Elders transformation brings new light to the group

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Dealer group Elders Financial Planning (Elders) has emerged from a six month transformation, a realignment the group hopes will attract more advisers to the Elders network. A joint venture company (Elders 49%, ANZ 51%), Elders Group have one the largest ...

DomaCom prepares to list on ASX

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
Applications to invest in the underwritten initial public offering (IPO) of fractional property investment fund, DomaCom, have today opened. Aiming to raise $10 million with a minimum of $5 million from investors, the IPO prospectus was lodged with ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
A big bounce in US employment gave the green light to investors and speculators to put risk back on onto their portfolios. Fear, it seems, has left the building... or driven out by the strong US jobs numbers. The VIX index closed 10.6% down to a reading ...

Advice bodies at odds over professional standards

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and the Financial Planning Association (FPA) present stark differences in opinion over professional standards in their latest submissions to Treasury, suggesting there's a long road ahead for the wavering ...

Industry fund appoints new CSO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
A risk executive manager from Colonial First State will join an industry superannuation fund as its chief strategy officer later this month. Joining Mine Wealth + Wellbeing from 25 July is Vasyl Nair. He will lead a new corporate strategy and be responsible ...

S&P outlook downgrade extends to banks

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
Standard and Poor's (S&P) revised Australian sovereign rating outlook from 'stable' to 'negative' has also been extended to the Australian major banks. The outlook downgrade is the first move of any of the major ratings agencies over the past 25 years ...

AUSTRAC improves indigenous super access

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees supports new guidance from the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) making it easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to access the superannuation system. AIST ...

Longevity driving interest in risk pooled products

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2016
A combination of longer life expectancy and poor returns from volatile markets is driving more investors to reassess their retirement and life insurance products, according to Milliman. Milliman, a global provider of actuarial products and services ...