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International planning expert urges advisers to voice FOFA concerns

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
Financial advisers are struggling to find time to meet with potential customers due to mounting compliance paperwork they have to complete as part of FOFA reforms. That's according to Canadian expert on financial planning Bruce Etherington, who has ...

Blackstone appoints Future Fund's Costello

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
The former general manager of Australia's Future Fund has been appointed as non-executive chairman for the Blackstone Group for Australia and New Zealand. Paul Costello will help guide the investment and advisory firm's development in the region, while ...

Ausbil Dexia assures investors following European bailout

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
Ausbil Dexia, the Australian equities specialist partly owned by the asset management arm of troubled European bank the Dexia Group, has moved to reassure investors following news of the bank's bailout in Europe. In a statement, chief executive officer ...

MLC creates licensee relationship manager roles to support adviser network

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
MLC has created nine new licensee relationship manager roles aimed at improving the licensee service experience for its aligned network of advisers across Australia. Licensee relationship managers (LRMs) will support advisers on all core licensee services ...

Asia-Pacific's HNWIs second largest in the world

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
Asia-Pacific's population of high net worth individuals now exceeds Europe's for the first time, making it the world's second-largest market after North America. That's according to the 2011 Asia-Pacific Wealth Report released by Merrill Lynch Global ...

ASFA warns against using super to buy homes

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has warned against making any changes to the superannuation system to help young people get a foot on the property ladder. It follows recent calls from head of Lateral Economics, Nicholas Gruen, to ...

Former Sonray chief gets jail time following ASIC charges

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
The former head of Sonray Capital Markets has been jailed for five years on 10 charges, which include false accounting involving fake deposits worth over $35 million. Scott Kenneth Murray, 33, of Werribee, Victoria will serve a minimum of two and a ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

Fidelity to offer fixed income products to Australian market

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has announced plans to bring fixed income products to the Australian market towards the end of 2012. The company said it is talking to its planners to gauge their opinions on which products it should bring over from Europe. ...

Mercer appoints new senior portfolio manager

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
Mercer has made a new senior appointment to its investment team in Melbourne. Stuart Birkett is joining the firm as senior portfolio manager, where he will head up Mercer's multi-manager equity portfolios, reporting to chief investment officer for Asia ...