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BT Financial Group wins Life Company of the Year

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers and Strategic Insight named BT Financial Group as Life Company of the Year in Sydney last night. BTFG took home the platinum award against runners-up TAL, MLC and OnePath. The AFA and Strategic Insight said these ...

ETFs are coming-of-age

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... buy a diversified ETF is a very good way to get started as an investor," Vynokur added. Usage of ETFs among financial advisers continued to remain strong with 43% of financial advisers currently recommending ETFs and 26% intending to do so in the future. ...

Super deadline driving adviser self-education

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... The looming super reforms are driving significant increases in traffic to MLC's online technical resources as financial advisers ready themselves for 1 July. Since the legislative changes were announced in May 2016, MLC has recorded a 104% increase in ...

Fight for workplace equality and diversity far from over

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... the workplace have a responsibility to make room for women to step up. That is the view of the Association of Financial Advisers' outgoing chief executive Brad Fox, as shared during a panel discussion at an International Women's Day event in Sydney yesterday ...

Former BT executive to head advice group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... now. "Over the past decade the outgoing executive team took Madison from a micro licensee that supported a handful of advisers, with a minimalist service offer, to one of Australia's premier non-institutionally owned firms. In that time the firm's funds ...

Russell Investments and Netwealth strike platform deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... has already been transitioned. Remaining as the investment manager of the assets, Russell's new platform will provide advisers and clients with access to term deposits, an integrated cash option and a number of insurance solutions. Netwealth joint managing ...

False ASIC licensing claims lead to closure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... regulator; despite the fact that such authorisations aren't available or possible as ASIC does not licence individual advisers. Further concern was raised by ASIC over statements on the website promoting certain financial products, saying they may have ...

AFA chief executive steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
The Association of Financial Advisers will welcome Philip Kewin as its new chief executive following the planned succession of Brad Fox. Kewin, a former financial adviser and former Zurich executive, will become the AFA chief executive on March 20. ...

SMSFs benefit from DomaCom deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... DomaCom Fund on their APL and to a similar number who have DomaCom on their radar to use. Nowhere else can financial advisers access bits of residential, rural or commercial property of their choice either in a managed account or on a traditional platform," ...

MLC Life Insurance upgrades underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... tele-underwriting service. Halving the lengthy underwriting process, the new Fast Track service will benefit both financial advisers and clients from a simplified administrative perspective. Advisers can now complete personal statements in full with ...