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Van Eck grows distribution team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... position as vice president - business development. Based in Melbourne, he will help promote Market Vectors ETFs to financial advisers and stock brokers. He joins from AMP Capital where, as strategy manager, direct solutions, he designed and implemented ...

Boutique launches two robo advice models

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... It is also reported to deliver enhanced control of risk and return outcomes. The second product is aimed at financial advisers and is directed towards investment strategy rather than a product focus. Quilla currently advises on about $5 billion of funds ...

CBA advisers ran from ASIC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... the idea of individual adviser misconduct being noted on the ASIC planner register, but the issue was complicated by advisers resigning when the regulator began its investigation. Speaking at the Senate Economics References Committee's Scrutiny of Financial ...

Sacked Macquarie advisers still in the industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Some of the 11 Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW) advisers who were made redundant because they gave improper advice are currently employed in other financial planning firms, Macquarie chief executive Nicholas Moore said. Speaking at a Senate Economics ...

Industry should help fund ASIC: ANZ

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... sufficient resources to fully police industry behaviour and it is the industry's responsibility to better supervise its advisers and minimise the chances of fraud or poor advice," Hodges said. ANZ Global Wealth chief executive officer Joyce Phillips ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... insurers to work directly with ASIC to combat "policy churning". "It is a poorly kept secret that life insurers know which advisers 'churn'," he explained, so it makes sense for the industry to work in tandem with the regulator to identify agents who ...

Don't blame "churning" on advisers: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... advice dealer group Synchron has asked industry stakeholders not to blame "churning" of life insurance policies only on advisers and demanded that insurers improve product design. Synchron noted that in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, "companies ...

Trowbridge proposals will hit consumers hardest

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... Trowbridge recommendations, saying they are "unworkable, impractical and do not acknowledge the value life insurance advisers provide to consumers." He noted that the hybrid remuneration model proposed in ASIC's October 2014 Review of retail life insurance ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... is going," Williams said. The Senator was the first to raise concerns in Parliament about cases of misconduct by CBA advisers and he tabled the motion for an inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Midwinter launches scaled advice division

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... channels, and then be able to escalate to a comprehensive service if appropriate." Murphy said that cloud technology allows advisers to "incrementally develop and decrease the time it takes to provide new features and updates to clients. "The cost benefits ...