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Countplus profit hit by end of loyalty payments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Countplus has seen its after-tax profit fall 12.2% as loyalty payments paid by Commonwealth Bank ended. Net financial planning revenue was down 15.9% due to payments to 16 member firm franchisees expiring. Excluding the impact of these payments and ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Countplus sells back stake in advice firms

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Commonwealth Bank-owned Countplus has sold its stake in two advice firms to management and senior employees. Employees and principals of Gold Coast firm MBA Partnership have bought back Countplus' 40% interest in the business. A 30% stake of Melbourne-based ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
We've gone a long way, baby! A very long way... down. It seems so long ago and far away now but, it had only been less than four months when the All Ordinaries index looked set to break the 6,000-point barrier. It was only 0.8% away (45.2 points) from ...

WAM Capital poised to pounce in mixed market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Wilson Asset Management chief investment officer Chris Stott says increasing M&A activity will create investment opportunities in the year ahead, despite a mixed economic outlook. The group's listed investment company, WAM Capital, grew 35.3% to $806.5 ...

Rethinking robo regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
The current legal and regulatory environment is not equipped to deal with potential issues arising from robo advice. According to Herbert Smith Freehills partner Michael Vrisakis, the wording of current legislation only considers the administration ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
MySuper will result in total cost savings of $1.4 billion to the overall super system, but introducing some simple measures could double that amount, according to the Grattan Institute. The Institute's productivity growth program director, Jim Minifie ...

UniSuper appoints legal specialists

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
Further developing its insourcing business model, industry fund UniSuper has appointed two executives to lead the advice and finance divisions of its legal services team. Joining UniSuper as head of risk and legal services for finance, operations, technology ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
An obsession with stability is moving investors away from all kinds of opportunities; from healthcare and IT mega caps to tobacco, fracking or coal, according to Ariel Investments chief investment officer of international and global equities Rupal J. ...

Financial advice is a boring game

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Approached as a game, financial advice is boring and unappealing for prospective clients, argued PortfolioConstruction Forum chief finology officer Dr. David Lazenby. Speaking at the 2015 Association of Financial Advisers National Roadshow in Sydney ...