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FPA award winners embrace FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... Gregory Cook CFP, Eureka Financial Group, Sydney Greg Tindall CFP, Macquarie Private Wealth, Sunshine Coast James Harris CFP, Brown & Bird Financial Planning, MacKay James Kenny CFP, Tupicoffs, Brisbane Peter Roan CFP, Roan Financial, Western Division ...

Advisers need to get wise to insurance turn offs, CommInsure

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Financial advisers need to do more to switch Australians on to their insurance needs. That's according to Tim Browne, general manager, Retail Advice, CommInsure, who told advisers at Sydney's CommInsure roadshow that underinsurance is one of the biggest ...

Former financial adviser gets three years jail time

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
A former Sydney financial adviser has been jailed for three years on six fraud charges. Alan Leslie Brown of Lugarno pleaded guilty in May to one count of obtaining money by deception, one count of using a false instrument and four counts of dishonest ...

Infra transport spending to jump 123%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2011
... congestion, we are concerned about health and security of our water supplies, we are concerned about the prospect of electricity 'brown outs', and we recognise the need to modernise our telecommunications." "There is a profound disconnect here," they ...

FOFA reforms are a soft landing

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
Bernie Ripoll MP told AFA conference delegates that the future of financial advice reforms represent a balance between the interests of major stakeholders and the middle ground. Ripoll said the inquiry that bears his name received over 400 submissions ...

Industry panel turns up FOFA heat

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
The 'future is in your hands' industry panel participants treated day one of the 2011 AFA conference to a lively debate over the architecture of the future of financial advice reforms, the regulatory separation of superannuation from the rest of the ...

AMP Capital hires ex-ING IM port managers

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... Capital chief investment officer David Kiddie. The new team will be led by AMP Capital head of fundamental equities Ella Brown, and includes current AMP Capital employees Jonas Palmqvist, Andrew Lally, Adrian Lemme, Carlos Castillo and Thomas Young. ...

Statewide and Local enter merger due diligence

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... approval from the major shareholders of both funds. Chair of StatewideSuper, Nicholas Begakis, and Local Super chair, Juliet Brown, said the proposed merger to create a $4 billion fund was approved by shareholders including Business SA, SA Unions, the ...

Ironbark expands account team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2011
... levels," said Chris Larsen, chief executive, Ironbark. Yesterday Financial Standard reported that equity fund manager, Maple-Brown Abbott, appointed Ironbark, currently responsible for around $2 billion of fund assets, to provide wholesale distribution ...

Advance sells management of $650 million retail funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2011
Equity fund manager Maple-Brown Abbott has acquired the management rights for two of its Australian retail funds with over $650 million in combined funds under management from Advance Asset Management. Maple-Brown Abbott (MBA) has appointed Ironbark ...