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Centrepoint makes four key appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... national manager of Life Insurance, a head of Research and a regional manager for Queensland and northern New South Wales. Neil Rogan is the new head of Distribution Strategy and Marketing for Centrepoint, which owns Professional Investment Services ...

Platinum's Neilson backs Japan in 2014

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014

La Trobe launches SMSF loan product

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
Credit Specialist La Trobe Financial has launched a new self-managed super fund (SMSF) loan product, allowing borrowers to buy residential, retail, commercial or rural property. La Trobe said launched the new product, which offers finance at 5.6%, in ...

Cochrane picks up FSS board role

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Former REST Superannuation chief executive Neil Cochrane is set to become chairman of the First State Super (FSS) Trustee Corporation (FTC) board, after the departure of Thomas Parry in 2014. Parry, who has provided 14 years of service to the FTC will ...

Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
More than 740,000 Australian pensioners will have extra money in their pockets as a result of the lowering of the social security deeming rates from 4 November 2013, Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrew said. The deeming rate will decrease to 2% ...

La Trobe calls to end home loan risk fees

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
Risk fees charged by some non-bank lenders on home loans offer no benefits to consumers and should be stopped, according to La Trobe Financial chief executive Greg O'Neill. Risk fees, or equalisation fees as they are sometimes known, appeared as an ...

FPA confronts advisers with their worst nightmare

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... thing that horrified me is that there was nothing in writing, no statement of advice, nothing," Tupicoffs managing director Neil Kendall said. Kendall took over the woman's case and was able to recover some of the money. "The planner belonged to a listed ...

Secrets of world's greatest investors revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
Operate with less risk than your peers, be prepared to change strategy if the market changes, don't invest in what you don't understand and work very hard. These are some of the attributes that characterise the world's 99 greatest investors, according ...

Platinum offers $15,000 financial planning scholarship

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
Platinum Asset Management, together with the Neilson Foundation, has launched a new scholarship for financial planning undergraduates, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has announced. The scholarships will be offered through five Australian universities ...

ANZ reshuffles wealth division, Barrett to depart

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... division. The current managing director of Advice and Distribution Paul Barrett has decided to leave ANZ, effective September 16. Neil Younger has been appointed general manager of Advice and Open Markets Channel. Younger joined ANZ in December 2011 ...