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Separate risk advisers from other planners: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
A life insurance policy has more in common with car insurance policies than with an investment portfolio and therefore risk advisers should be kept separate from other financial planners, Synchron director Don Trapnell argued. "For some reason, risk ...

Think of China as the new America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
Australian investors and businesses must understand that China is changing at a fast pace and they should be quick to adapt to what will be the world's biggest consumer economy, AXA Investment Management head of Asia Mark Tinker said at the Financial ...

Bellmont to offer SMAs through Hub24

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
Boutique portfolio manager Bellmont Securities will offer two separately managed account (SMA) model portfolios through the Hub24 platform. Bellmont's Core Equities and Buy-Write portfolios were previously available through Linear, but Bellmont director ...

Spike in SMSF borrowing breaches

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
There has been a spike in the number of self-managed super fund (SMSF) breaches related to borrowing, research by Partners Wealth Group shows. The number of SMSFs requiring a contravention report to be lodged with the ATO has fallen over the past year ...

ASFA supports ASIC electronic disclosure consultation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
The Association of Super Funds Australia (ASFA) has expressed its support for the ideas discussed in ASIC Consultation Paper 224 - Facilitating electronic financial services disclosures. It argued that ASIC facilitating electronic disclosure will assist ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
Surprises, surprises, and more surprises. We're yet to complete the first month of 2015 and thus far, we've gotten central bank surprises a-plenty... and they're not kinder surprises either. We've seen the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro ...

Managed accounts boost advice business valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
New research from Rainmaker reveals that managed accounts are not only enabling advisers to improve their clients' investment outcomes as well as boost their own business' worth, they are enabling new investment managers to enter the market. The research ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on European and US stock markets. At 0715 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,281. Europe's leading stock markets got a boost from expectations ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
There's no question about it... the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) surprise move was the biggest story in the financial markets last week. So huge that it eclipsed everything else. It eclipsed the plunging oil price and the dropping copper price -- the ...

AFA GenXt roadshow connects knowledge and performance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) will focus on education and knowledge as a means to drive business and client performance at this year's GenXt National Roadshow. More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the roadshows that are taking ...