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Super fund ramps up insurance access

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
BUSS(Q), the Queensland based super fund for building and construction workers has introduced a new phone based claims and underwriting process to make it easier for its 90,000 members to interact with the fund's insurer. The changes which include customised ...

FOREX launches free trading app

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
FOREX.com, the retail arm of GAIN Capital Holdings, has become the latest online global trader to launch a free iPad app for customers. The new FOREXTrader app allows clients to trade and manage their accounts and gives them access to real time charts ...

Promotion prospects need to be addressed: Survey

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
The majority of Australian financial professionals are happy in their current roles and feel they have a reasonable work/life balance, according to new research from career professionals' website eFinancial Careers. However, just under half of respondents ...

OneVue to expand its UMA platform distribution

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
Platform provider OneVue said talks are at an advanced stage with several new dealer groups and accounting firms to make its unified managed account platform available to them. Adviser groups currently using the OneVue unified managed account (UMA) ...

Planner banned as watchdog continues industry clean-up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
ASIC is continuing its clean up of the financial services sector with the banning of another Sydney based planner. Stephen Paul Hing of Enmore has been barred from providing financial services for four years after an investigation revealed he took part ...

Partner launches global private equity fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011

T. Rowe Price appoints former ING IM manager

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
The former wholesale business development manager at ING Investment Management in Sydney has been named as the new business development manager at T. Rowe Price. Heath Branigan will be focused on adviser distribution at the global investment management ...

Crowe Horwath extends reach with new appointments

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
Financial services firm Crowe Horwath has announced four new senior appointments in a major hiring drive that has seen the company recruit a total of 17 Principals in the past year. Russell Wilkinson has been appointed to customs and Rahavan Yoganathan ...

Financial planners reluctant to sell up despite uncertain times

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
There's been a massive drop in the number of financial planners looking to sell their practices, despite uncertainty surrounding the implementation of the Future of Financial Advice reforms and the state of the economy. That's according to industry ...

Advice boutique gets image shake-up

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
Asteron-aligned dealer group Guardian has shed 'financial planning' from its title in a bid to shake-up the company's brand on its 10th anniversary. Guardian Advice, formerly known as Guardian Financial Planning, said the brand had become "tired" and ...