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New Fortnum advice business targeting accountants

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
Independently-owned advisory firm Fortnum Financial Group has launched a new business targeting accountants aiming to become licenced to provide financial advice. Fortnum Professional Strategies will provide class of product licensing as well as education ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... broadband service and performance to preferred customers. Comcast fell 4.0 per cent, Time Warner Cable lost 4.9 per cent, Charter Communications lost 6.2 per cent, and Verizon fell 0.3 per cent. LONDON - European stock markets mostly rose amid a lack ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
The 2014 finalists of the Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (or "the Smileys"), sponsored by Zurich and IRESS were announced today ahead of the awarding of the Scholarship in Sydney on Tuesday 13th November. ...

Surge in Australian-educated FM professionals heading OS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... represented universities among these globetrotting graduates were UNSW, University of Sydney and Macquarie University while CFA charter designations among these students are more popular than MBAs. Rounding out the top five universities are University ...

Folkestone beefs up distribution

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... development and distribution services to fund managers. Prior to Property Capital Partners, Baker was a key account manager at Charter Hall and Macquarie Group. He also was a business development manager at Count Wealth. BDM Harry Horwitz-Rourke joins ...

Financial Wisdom and Count also subject to higher standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
Advisers at Commonwealth Bank-owned (CBA) Financial Wisdom and Count Financial will be subject to higher education standards from today, joining their counterparts at Commonwealth Financial Planning and BW Financial Advice. The new standards apply to ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat as Wall Street trades in positive territory. At 0645 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,175. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Australian ...

BT launches 'ground-breaking' advice register

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
BT Financial Group has launched an online advice register listing every adviser on its network, and providing details of their qualifications, customer ratings and feedback. Dubbed 'Adviser View' and described by BT's general manager of advice Mark ...

Adviser trust improves client outcomes

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
Financial advisers imbued with the most trust by their clients are better qualified and more experienced than their counterparts, according to research by the Beddoes Institute. The data and benchmarking company analysed thousands of client ratings ...

Accountant pays $10,000 fine for $100,000 fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
A former Perth company director will have to pay a $10,000 fine after inducing a 70-year-old investor to give his business a cheque for $100,000 and then using it for his own purposes. Andy Kay Hooi Lim saw his 12 months jail sentence wholly suspended ...