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Industry pushes for more consumer protection under FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The financial services industry has welcomed the Finance Minister Mathias Cormann's decision to temporarily freeze the amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation, which some stakeholders believe will lead to increased consumer protection. ...

AMP Capital expands US and UK-based infra team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... as associate director.A He previously worked in the finance team at British Land and is a fully qualified chartered accountant. Haight and Fox will both report to AMP Capital infrastructure debt principal Richard Lane. In New York, Spencer Ivey has been ...

Count Financial launches its Accountants' Solution

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... a full authorisation enabling the provision of comprehensive financial advice. The mid-level authorisation known as Accountant Authorised Representative is for accountants that want to continue providing SMSF only advice once the accountants' exemption ...

Financial Index launches low-cost advice platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
Financial Index Wealth Accountants has launched an online financial planning platform aimed at Australians who have never accessed financial advice. The MOVO platform will focus on rolling out financial planning services, but future phases include integrating ...

GenYs shy away from independent, professional advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... that 36% of GenYs relied on family and friends for financial advice and 33% would use a bank. Only 14% would use an accountant and even less than that, 13%, would ask a financial adviser for help. The reason was not lack of knowledge of what financial ...

ATO doing a good job on SMSFs: Cooper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is rising to the challenge of efficiently regulating the self-managed superannuation sector, according to Challenger's chairman of retirement income Jeremy Cooper. Cooper said that, contrary to perceptions that it ...

Federation added to Australian Unity platform

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Federation Managed Accounts (Federation) have been added to the Australian Unity Personal Financial Services' (AU PFS) approved platform list. AU PFS chief executive officer Steve Davis said the operational structure of the platform coupled with the ...

More Australians opt for advice through super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... is there's a lot more people who say, 'I'll go to my super fund,' there's a lot more people sayin, 'I will go to my accountant.' "So this just reflects how Australians are starting to accept that they can get this information from their super funds or ...

FSC joins calls for tax deductible advice

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has recommended the government implement tax deductions for those seeking financial advice. The FSC used its pre-Budget submission to join organisations such as the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Institute ...

Charterhill assets frozen

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
The Federal Court in Adelaide froze all assets owned by the founders of the Charterhill group, following an application from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The Charterhill group specialises in assisting clients to invest ...