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Super fund investment transparency can improve

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
Superannuation fund disclosure is under a spotlight for the second time in as many weeks. This time the focus is centred on super funds' investment portfolios with a survey from activist group Market Forces showing 86% of Australians want to know where ...

Pilot, surgeon and soccer coach join FPA line up

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
The Financial Planning Association has announced the full line up of speakers ahead of the 2016 FPA Professionals Congress in Perth later this year. FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said this year's group of speakers was the strongest one yet for the ...

Retirement income opportunities begin early

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Choice chief executive Alan Kirkland believes bi-partisan government support is needed for a superannuation objective that makes the retirement income message clear. Kirkland says too often debates occur around super's purpose and whether people's retirement ...

ASIC bans fraudulent broker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
ASIC has permanently banned a former Sydney finance broker. Jennifer Farias is now banned from engaging in credit activities and providing financial services after an investigation by the regulator and criminal action brought against her found she was ...

Under reporting of super fees harming investors: ASIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
ASIC says it is motivated by the fact that inconsistent and under reporting of superannuation fees is harming investors and as a regulator it will not allow this to continue. ASIC has also revealed it recently knocked back industry requests to extend ...

Sequoia launches two specialist retail products

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
Sequoia Financial Group has launched two new structured products for retail investors. The first, Sequoia Accelerated Return Units - Series 1 gives exposure to Tesla Motors, the US electric car and energy storage company; the second, Sequoia Launch ...

Bridges advice head resigns

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
The chief executive of IOOF-owned Bridges has resigned and the former head of Western Pacific Financial Planning has been appointed to the role in the interim. Nick Langton joined Bridges in 2014 from Perpetual where he was general manager of Perpetual's ...

Majority of Australians without financial plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
Baby boomers are more optimistic than their younger counterparts, with 51% of generation X fearing they won't have enough money to retire compared to 40% of baby boomers, according to new research from the Financial Planning Association of Australia ...

Flat Australian dividends help case for global diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
The latest Henderson Global Dividend Index reinforces the need for Australian investors to seek income in offshore markets as Australian equities continued to produce flat dividends. Dividends in Australia fell 0.2% on an underlying basis in the three ...

Millennials face gender inequality shock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Globally the number of females represented on financial services boards continues to grow, but a stagnancy at the executive level is disenfranchising millennials as they get to grips with a workplace stuck in its gendered past. Oliver Wyman's 2016 Women ...