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ClearView calls for life insurance industry crackdown

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
ClearView Wealth Limited has petitioned Life Insurance and Advice Working Group (LIAWG) chairman John Trowbridge to fix numerous conflicts of interest within the industry. The key recommendations in ClearView's statement were indicating that narrow ...

MLC fund is Roy Morgan retail super fund of the year

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
MLC-owned Plum has been named retail super fund of the year by participants in Roy Morgan's customer satisfaction awards. Given the same award last year, Plum is MLC's main corporate super provider. "This award is testament to our commitment to delivering ...

SMSF Association introduces new accreditation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
The SMSF Association has introduced a number of new initiatives for 2015 at its annual conference in Melbourne. The first of four new initiatives is the introduction of a self-managed super fund (SMSF) Certified Practitioner accreditation designed as ...

In the archives: Mavis Robertson on the importance of more women on boards

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
When it comes to appointing more women in senior management, super funds have done far better than listed companies, but given the talent pool left untapped, trustees can do more to fix the gender gap within their ranks. Back in 2010, Financial Standard ...

OPINION: The Achilles heel of unbundled services

DARREN SPEIRS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
The popularity of self-managed super funds (SMSFs) has fuelled the rapid growth of an extensive range of unbundled services that promise trustees greater choice and control, as well as lower costs than traditional bundled services. However as Darren ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher amid a ceasefire in Ukraine and hopes for a deal over Greece's bailout. At 0857 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 30 points at 5,747. A new roadmap aimed at ending a 10-month ...

SPAA rebrands as SMSF Association

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2015
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has renamed itself the SMSF Association. According to SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery, the change occurred because the organisation needs to "[reflect] the importance of the SMSF ...

Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Married couples should be allowed to have a joint account for their superannuation, Rice Warner proposed in its pre-budget submission to Treasury. "We set out the logic of this arrangement in a newsletter last year and had positive feedback from the ...

Netwealth appoints general manager for adviser channel

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
Netwealth Advice Group has appointed a general manager for its employed adviser business, Bridgeport Financial Planning. Cameron Cogle joins netwealth from ClearView, where he was general manager. "Cameron's experience in leading salaried financial ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
And an easing here, an easing there, everywhere an easing... Just a day after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) joined the central bank surprise club and decided to ooh, ahh, "have what they're having", and two days after I typed on this space "and ...