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HLB Mann Judd appoints director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... She has worked for Westpac in Sydney as a senior business advisor and for Standard Life in Edinburgh as a management accountant.

BT adds managed funds to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
BT Financial Group will add managed funds to its Panorama investment platform, which in the future will also offer individual equities and advanced portfolio management for advisers. BT Managed Portfolios will offer advisers and their clients a simple ...

PROFILE: NAB head of wealth Andrew Hagger

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... get postings if you were in the audit division than in tax." Two years in the job and having finished his Chartered Accountant degree, he was transferred to London. His wife, who was working as a physiotherapist, joined him in this first adventure. "On ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Advice business mergers and acquisitions are set to reach unprecedented levels in 2015 thanks to regulatory certainty and an increasing demand for independent financial advice. "The shackles of poor investment markets and legislative uncertainty have ...

UBS joins mFund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
UBS Securities Australia (UBS) has joined the mFund Settlement Service. The addition of UBS expands mFund's distribution network to 11 distributors, 10 issuers representing 75 funds and 22 fund managers and nine registrar service providers. "mFund is ...

Pro-active, timely responses avoid SMSF penalties

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
Responding quickly, honestly and with a realistic plan to correct instances of non-compliance is the best way for self-managed super fund (SMSF) members and trustees to avoid penalties from the ATO. That was the advice dispensed by ATO director of SMSF ...

SMSF Association introduces new accreditation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... available on its website. The SMSF Association has also been working with the industry on a service which includes an 'Accountant Licensing Solution' diagnostic tool. "We have built a career pathway for all SMSF professionals and it is this professionalism ...

Accountants threatened by regulation, falling profits, succession

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... accountants have growing uncertainties about their advice facilities, especially given the looming removal of the AFSL "accountant's exemption" for SMSF advice in July 2016. "The accounting practices which are most successful are those that are building ...

Nikko AM managing director resigns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... and international roles and four years with Deutsche Bank in Sydney and London, as well as four years as a chartered accountant with KPMG.

Accountants interested in mFund: OneVue

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... will drive new interest in managed funds from SMSF accountants, according to the OneVue/Investment Trends 2014 SMSF Accountant Report. 13% of survey respondents indicated they would start using mFund for their clients, while half of the group planned ...