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Social media anything but rocket science

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... edge as a financial adviser had little to do with satisfying industry regulations, but instead was more about being proactive and changing the fundamental way they think about their business. "If all financial advisers are doing is struggling with FoFA ...

Half of adviser practices in poor health: Securitor

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013
... money appear to have been invested elsewhere over the past few years," said the damning report. It adds that unless proactive, remedial action is taken in the relatively short term, practice owners will find themselves 'paying the piper' though poorer ...

Advisers risk wasting 2013: van Eyk Advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... FoFA. "Businesses are still slow to properly address the major flaws in the traditional advice model, the dearth of proactive, structured engagement with clients and the poor business processes and practices that are the legacy of having relied on passive ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... performance on five measures of managing climate risk, including transparency to members, low-carbon investments and taking a proactive approach to investments. The index was built following information requests to the world's 1,000 largest asset owners ...

Super's growth a challenge for ASIC: Medcraft

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... organisation in the country, were the challenges that come with increasing complexity, and his organisation's ability to be a proactive regulator.

Hultgren appointed MDRT Australia chairman

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
Geelong based financial adviser and Principal of Chapman Welsh Financial Services Ross Hultgren has been appointed Australian national chairperson of the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT). The MDRT is one of the premier global associations for financial ...

APRA issues final Basel III reforms

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... Australia from 1 January 2013. David Craig, group chief financial officer at CBA said this effort demonstrates the Group's proactive approach to its ongoing capital management strategy.

Changes sent packing

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
The separation between group and retail insurance will influence how superannuation funds package benefits for members in the future, said AIA Australia CEO Peter Crewe. Traditionally the two segments have been treated separately by insurers. But new ...

CBA set to launch a $750 million hybrid offer

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... VI will be the first BASEL III compliant Tier 1 hybrid issued by an Australian bank, which demonstrates the Group's proactive approach to its ongoing capital management strategy. To educate investors about the hybrids high level of risks, the bank is ...

Regulators on post-Trio watch

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
Australia's corporate watchdog said it has learnt some lessons in the wake of the Trio fraud, and plans to be more proactive. While admitting that the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) could never guarantee that a similar scenario ...