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FPA's Value of Advice Awards 2007

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is accepting entries for its Value of Advice Awards 2007, which acknowledge exemplary financial planners in five different categories. Started last year, the Value of Advice Awards cover five categories, namely ...

PE investment in UK boosts job: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), through a survey confirming the economic impact of private equity investment, has hit back at claims private equity investors have poor disclosure and do not contribute to the national economy. "In the ...

Reverse mortgage standards under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... legislate minimum standards. However, Peter McGuinness, a founding member of the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) and chief executive officer of Bluestone Equity Release, said the results were not surprising. "I think ...

IFSA adds two to board

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has appointed two senior industry executives as new board members. Maria Wilton joins the board from Franklin Templeton Investments where she is currently managing director. Brian Bissaker fills ...

Reverse mortgages to mature: SEQUAL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
... new products to market, according to Keiren Dell, chief executive officer of the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL). Dell backed up the findings of a recent Trowbridge Deloitte survey commissioned by Bluestone that revealed ...

FPA member fined and expelled

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expelled a member in the continuing fallout from the Westpoint disaster. Western Australian planner Annemieke de Boer of Centro Financial Synergy was charged with 35 breaches of the FPA's Code of Ethics and ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

... For Life have competing research products. Richard Gilbert, chief executive of the Investment and Financial Services Association Limited (IFSA), the non-profit peak body for retail and wholesale managed funds, super funds and life insurance groups, said ...

FPA checklist to guide members on super switching

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has released a checklist for its members working with clients on switching their superannuation. The checklist focuses on information gathering and comes in response to concern over legislative requirements for ...

Hatfield leaves Pengana

... fund distribution and was a past chairman of the Australian Chapter of the UK based Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). He is considered one of the pioneers in the hedge funds industry having set up Colonial First State's hedge fund ...

Super funds could offer transaction banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... basically the minimum and maximum pull downs," says Phillipa Smith, chief executive of the Australian Superannuation Funds Association. "Previously we thought that it would have to work through linkages with Approved Deposit Institutions but that may ...