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Advice group sues online forum over negative review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Financial planning firm WCS Group has started legal action against forum website Whirlpool over comments posted by a user named 'homemadecook.' WCS Group is a financial planning and mortgage broking business within NAB-owned dealer group Apogee. As ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Geopolitical tensions ease, geopolitical tensions boil, geo-political tensions ease, geo-political tensions boil, geo-political... Financial markets continue to seesaw on this, just like they did with QE (I, II and III) on/QE (I, II and III) off and ...

FEATURE: Have we reached the tipping point for managed accounts?

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
In the first of a two-part special report on the sector, Mark Smith explores why after a series of false starts, industry experts are saying now is the time for managed accounts to live up to their billing as the next big thing in client portfolio management. ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Is that bad news on your pocket... or you're just happy to see me? Yes Virginia, equity markets are rejoicing as the roll of bad news continued overnight. US initial unemployment claims increased by more than expected to 311K in the week ended 9 August ...

Macquarie forced to contact all advice clients for remediation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
Macquarie Equities Limited (MEL) must contact all clients who received advice from its financial planning arm, Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW), going back to 2004 following action from the regulator. Under the enforceable undertaking (EU) in place since ...

More super changes inevitable: EY report

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Further changes to superannuation regulations are inevitable and more work is needed to improve confidence in the system, according to EY's Australia-based global pension leader Graeme McKenzie. Releasing EY's new report, 'Building a better retirement ...

Suncorp CEO rewarded for profit growth

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Insurance and banking group Suncorp's growing profits have resulted in boss Patrick Snowball being rewarded with one of Australia's largest executive pay cheques. The 64-year-old Englishman took home remuneration worth $9.12 million in the 2013/14 financial ...

Record profits for Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
Standard Life Investments has reported a ten-fold increase in before tax operating profit to a record $190 million for the first half of 2014, up from $15.5 million for the same period last year. Third party inflows of $7.7 billion over the period marked ...

Tribunal sees rise in super admin complaints

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
Administration concerns were largest category of written complaints to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) for the June 2014 quarter. Of the complaints received 38.6% related to administration with death benefit complaints making up the second-largest ...

GBST delivers first SuperStream contributions to SMSFs

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
GBST, a SuperStream Gateway provider for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) has delivered its first live SuperStream electronic choice contributions messages destined for SMSFs. This initial SuperStream "cohort" which commenced live contributions on 4 ...