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Wins and losses in PC default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... have long argued fund selection should not be done on the basis of quantitative measures such as performance, fees or insurance premium value. The subtlety is employer workplace super becoming centred around MySuper products will automatically change ...

AIA expands rehabilitation team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
Life insurance specialist, AIA Australia has made three new hires to its rehabilitation team in a bid to continually improve its return-to-work programs for policy holders. Each new hire has over 15 years experience in their field and include rehabilitation ...

UK to ban platform payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... segment hard but they nonetheless support the FSA's policy initiative, reported the IFAonline.com news service. Life insurance companies will be exempted from the reforms for the time being, pending further consultation, noted the FSA. Discount broker ...

Adviser pleads guilty to dishonest conduct

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Former financial adviser Susan Heathwood has pleaded guilty to dishonest conduct on two accounts by falsifying insurance applications in order to collect commissions. The ex adviser pleaded guilty on two counts in Downing Centre Local Court yesterday ...

NIIS development on track

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... advisory group established by the government following the Productivity Commission's inquiry into a National Disability and Insurance Scheme has endorsed the Gillard government' policy approach. "The Advisory Group's work on the issues associated with ...

SMSF auditor competency education push

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... accounting body program. Applicants will also need to meet a fit and proper person test, hold professional indemnity insurance and have 300 hours of SMSF audit experience in the three years prior to registration, subject to transitional arrangements. ...

Mariner launches Austock takeover bid

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... Property and Austock Life. It is understood that Mariner seeks to retain the funds management unit and offload the life insurance division. Earlier this month Austock announced an expected $15 to $16 million net loss for fiscal 2012.

New accountants' licence hailed as win for affordable advice

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... (AFSL) may provide financial advice on SMSFs and 'class of product advice' on basic deposit products, general and life insurance, securities, and simple managed investment schemes. The new licence does not, however, allow specific product recommendations ...

CFS upgrades its FirstWrap Platform

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... used by advisers who want access to wide ranging technologically oriented features spanning not just investment and insurance options but transactional efficiency and best practice administration processes. Colonial First State recently introduced e-Post ...

SMSF Trustees want compensation: SPAA

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... not be implemented immediately, Burgess said that in his opinion, what was meant was that adviser's personal indemnity insurance could be misinterpreted as an existing protection for clients. "He [Richard St John] wants that sorted out first, but he ...