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AFA Female Excellence semi-finalists named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and TAL have announced the semi-finalists for the 2015 AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award. Next Step Financial Group's Crystal Broadfoot, Perspective Financial Services' Esther Althaus, Carrington Financial ...

BT reveals winners of national awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
BT Financial Group handed the awards to best adviser, best practice of the year and rising star at a ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra. McPhail HLG Financial Planning director and adviser Anne Graham was awarded Adviser of the Year, while the ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... professional investors think the key to retail is elsewhere. Lazard Asset Management managing director for Asia Pacific Robert Prugue told Financial Standard that the future is in new vehicles such as mFund or actively-managed exchange traded funds (ETFs). ...

Agribusiness fund launched by former Telstra Super exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... agribusiness space that will appeal to both superannuation funds and private investors. Headed by former Telstra Super executive Robert Talevski and professional agriculture investor Summer Yan, ASURO Group is looking both locally and offshore for private ...

Chartered accountants' response 'clumsy'

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... GAA only accepts one body per country, and NZICA's Australian counterpart had already taken that membership spot. Justice Robert Dobson said there had been no evidence of CPA Australia's own aggressive marketing, and while NZICA may have been clumsy ...

Australian Defence Force offered super fund choice

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... also have access to a default military superannuation fund. A statement from the Assistant Minister for Defence, Stuart Robert said ADF Super fixes one of the longest running grievances of the veteran and ex-service community. Robert said the 16.4% contribution ...

ASIC reviews One Big Switch, bans adviser

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... engaged in conduct "that was misleading or deceptive whilst issuing unsecured fixed interest notes in Protect Ensure." Lee Robert Robin of Camp Hill, Queensland, has been a director of Protect Ensure since 18 April 2006. Protect Ensure was placed into ...

Sherwin principal faces court for SMSF fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Sherwin Financial Planners principal, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, has faced court for causing self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees to lose $10 million. Sherwin was also chairman of failed business Wickham Securities and was banned from financial ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
A recent rise in bond yields across Europe, America and Australia is nothing but a blip on the radar according to Altair Asset Management chief economist, Stephen Roberts. In his latest economic insights column, Roberts said the risk of recession in ...

SG Hiscock appoints head of research

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... is to achieve a consistent superior performance commensurate with the risk profile of the fund," SGH20 portfolio manager Robert Hook said. Tadgell will be involved in the management of the SGH20 strategy including stock selection, monitoring current ...