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New FPA member base shows changing face of industry

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... inspired by how the profession is evolving. The FPA community continues to work hard to build initiatives that encourage Australians across all demographics to join this profession," Rantall said. "It is important that financial planners are a diverse ...

SPAA approves government's response to Trio reports

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... response. "The FPA supports all recommendations that aim to improve access to and transparency of financial advice for all Australians," FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said. "We also support recommendations that address our concerns about better access ...

Abbott super cut to affect low income Australians: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
Around one in three working Australians will be denied up to $500 each year under opposition leader Tony Abbott's plan to cut the Low Income Superannuation Contribution (LISC), minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten said. According ...

Deferred annuity tax reforms safeguard retirees

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... putting an increasing strain on retirement funding. Towers Watson says that in the next 20 years, around 5.5 million Australians will reach age 65, and their combined superannuation assets at retirement will be around $1.6 trillion. How these retirees ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... words, "don't ask for whom the bells toll, it tolls for thee". Did I say you, I mean Julia and Wayne. For just as we Australians all, seemed to have warmed to Julia's flip on the carbon tax, the international price has collapsed. Australian energy guzzlers ...

2013 Financial Standard Sales & Marketing Forum

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
Registrations are still open for 2013 Financial Standard Sales & Marketing Forum, where leading financial services and marketing leaders will share their views on succeeding in the changing marketplace. A host of expert speakers will share their thoughts ...

Elana Rubin resigns from TAL board

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
Elana Rubin has resigned from the TAL board of directors effective immediately, the life insurer has announced. Rubin has been a TAL director since 2007 and was also the chair of the Investment Committee and a member of the Technology and Innovation ...

IFM consortium wins Port Botany lease

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... industry superannuation funds, the investment will benefit the superannuation savings of an estimated five million Australians - including more than 1.5 million in NSW," he said. The Association of Superannuation Funds (ASFA) welcomed the purchase. "Given ...

Reversal of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... rate to top 10.0% at the height of the GFC. Or perhaps, it is he, RBA Governor Glen Stevens, who's wrong when he told Australians all that, "...there are signs that the easier conditions are having some of the expected effects". And him too, deputy RBA ...

Provisio releases member-to-adviser tech tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
Advice specialist Provisio Technologies has released a new tool that allows members to engage directly with an adviser, taking over from old-style online calculators. Provisio, which was acquired by Rubik Financial last February, is already providing ...