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Challenger to raise $530m to fund further annuities growth

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Challenger is looking to raise a total of $530 million to inject further growth in its booming annuities business. The figure will be raised from a combination of a $250 million institutional share placement, a $30 million retail share placement and ...

Consumers ask banks to disclose brand ownership

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Most Australians believe that multi-branding is a trick used by banks to hide their ownership and would like institutions to disclose who owns them when they advertise, new research found. As many as 84% of respondents, in research surveying 1,520 people ...

Licensees must be more open to social media: AFA

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
Licensees that allow advisers to be active on social media could soon be more appealing to advisers according the Association of Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking on a panel at the AdviserEdge Social Advice Summit on the Gold Coast ...

Skaffold appointment signals assault on SMSF market

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Stock research company Skaffold.com has appointed Trevor Clisby to lead its expansion into financial services and self-managed super fund (SMSF) administrator markets. Clisby's title is head of wholesale markets. He has over 25 years of financial markets ...

Giving through PAFs back to pre-crisis level

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
New donations into tax effective Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs), have risen 16% to $354 million in the year to 30 June, surpassing pre-crisis levels, according to the annual JBWere Giving Trends Report. The total number of PAFs is up 13.5% to 1,246 ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Here we go again; a parliamentarian proposes a policy response to housing affordability involving superannuation and trade-side interest groups circle the wagons, warning of capital market calamity. Triggering this latest ruckus is that at end July ...

Skaffold targets SMSF with latest hire

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Independent stock research company Skaffold looks to expand further into the SMSF administrator markets with its latest hire. Trevor Clisby, who was most recently general manager at Green Light Super Services, has been appointed head of wholesale markets. ...

BOQ CEO resigns for overseas role

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
BOQ chief executive Stuart Grimshaw will depart the bank at the end of August to pursue a non-banking opportunity outside Australia. Chief operating officer Jon Sutton will take over as acting chief executive from 1 September 2014. The Board is currently ...

Do not take adviser loyalty for granted: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
Platform providers should not take financial adviser's loyalty for granted, as new research shows that planners are exercising choice when it comes to platforms. The number of advisers using a platform due to the dealer group's preferences has fallen ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
Superannuation is likely to be in the firing line as the Federal government looks for tax savings in a bid to repair the fiscal state of the economy, according to BT chief economist Dr Chris Caton. "The generosity of the super taxation structure will ...