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Plan B refutes first mover claims on fee for service

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2006
Perth based financial planning group Plan B has refuted "first mover" claims made by MLC's high end financial planning group Godfrey Pemboke, who last week touted their switch to a purely fee for service remuneration model as a first in the industry. ...

MLC claims "first mover" on "fee for service"

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
NAB/MLC have announced that their high-end financial planning group, Godfrey Pembroke, will mandate that all planners be remunerated purely by fee for service, believing it is a "first move" for a major player in the industry that has become caught ...

More meat in Meat Super

A little known super fund for the meat industry holds the title of the "lowest cost fund in the country" with above average returns to boot. The Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF), which manages super for red meat abattoirs and poultry ...

FPA stops short of backing member calls

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has stopped short of backing member calls for a shift towards offering consumers the choice of fee for service, instead supporting what it calls an "advice-based" fee model. FPA chairman, Corinna Dieters, said ...

Quadrant gets ready as baby boomers cash in super

Tasmanian-based industry fund Quadrant has reshaped its operations in the lead up to its predominantly 'baby boomer' members entering the retirement phase in the next few years. Chief executive officer, Wayne Davy, said that the fund, which was previously ...

More aware but unlikely to switch super: CARE

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
Over three-quarters of respondents in a recent CARE Super survey said that it was more important to be aware of super than it was 12 months ago, but three-quarters also said they had not considered switching super post-choice. A quarter of respondents ...

Women like risk, men think too much

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
While behavioral finance helps explain the things that economics gets wrong, a greater understanding of investor behavior may help us develop investment products that better suit individuals. Tracey McNaughton, senior economist with BT Financial Group ...

Ten days or less to act on requests: ASFA

Super funds should take action within 10 days of receiving requests to transfer superannuation benefits, according to guidelines just released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA has released a best practice paper called ...

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

Investors are choosing margin lenders based on the lender's reputation not just on how much they charge, according to the latest survey from Investment Trends. In a comprehensive survey of over 2,900 investors, the Sydney-based research firm Investment ...

DirectPortfolio to launch SMA Lite

Separately managed account (SMA) specialist DirectPortfolio Services plans to tap into the Gen X and Gen Y market with a slimmed down version of their product to be called 'SMA Lite'. An SMA is like a managed fund except an SMA structure allows clients ...