Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 471 - 480 of 1758 results for "Financial Planners"

More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... ordinary course of their duties. IOOF had paid $2.8 million in compensation to 57 customers of its authorised financial planners during the past two years. As for the Royal Commission, Williams said he has been on the issue for five or six years. "I ...

Adviser input key to super fund switch: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... change funds, the latest Roy Morgan research revealed. The proportion of super fund members who seek advice from financial planners to switch their superannuation fund has gone up from 20.5% in 2010 to 29.9% in 2014, the 'Superannuation and Wealth Management ...

Peters MacGregor makes marquee hire

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... distribution from Aberdeen Asset Management. Alex Haynes will manage the firm's relationships with direct investors, financial planners and institutional investors. Haynes was Aberdeen Asset Management head of business development until December 2014 ...

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... saying they were "not at all knowledgeable." When asked about whose advice they find helpful, 30% responded financial planners or advisers, 19% relied on stock brokers who provide advice and 12% on wealth management advisers. About 30% did not seek advice ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... reported to ASIC whereby people were cheating on exams to keep their qualifications and advise up to 1,200 financial planners. Kelaher confirmed today's media reports that IOOF had paid $2.8 million in compensation to 57 customers of its authorised financial ...

Fiducian acquires Chatswood advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... advice." He added: "A lot of operational activity has occurred to ensure a smooth transition for the quality financial planners joining the Fiducian team. "We also want to ensure minimal disruption to the advice proposition for clients."

Aged care advice enquiries skyrocket

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... Meldrum said that since July last year, "the amount of aged care enquiries coming through the accountants and financial planners in our network has risen dramatically. And this is a combination of prospective residents of aged care facilities and also ...

Cost cuts put research at risk

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... investment option delivery systems. With over 3,400 advisers, AMP is home to Australia's largest network of financial planners and its research division has become essential to their work. Head of research Leanne Milton said that "without a research ...

Sherwin principal faces court for SMSF fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Sherwin Financial Planners principal, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, has faced court for causing self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees to lose $10 million. Sherwin was also chairman of failed business Wickham Securities and was banned from financial ...

Labor now opposes advice Royal Commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... within the financial services sector." Whish-Wilson's motion included a reference to "the allegations that financial planners at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, ANZ Bank, Macquarie Bank and, most recently, IOOF had engaged ...