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FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
With longevity, inflation and market risk remaining critical for many Australians, Laura Millan looks at how advisers and product providers can join forces to come up with the best strategies to meet retirees needs. Treasurer Joe Hockey's 2014-15 budget ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... index of leading economic indicators rose 0.5 per cent in May. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama offered up to 300 US advisers to train Iraqi forces. Iraqi forces regained control of the nation's largest oil refinery, but rebels remain in control of ...

Prepare for the 'financial Amazon': Joye

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... Joye's prediction of the 'financial Amazon' came as part of a discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of financial advisers being part of vertically integrated dealer groups. "If I was an adviser, I would be avoiding vertical integration," he said. ...

MetLife head of retirement products departs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... investor, your account has not been affected." The spokesperson said that there was some interest from independent financial advisers, and that some of the product sold. However, she did not say how much was sold. She denied that it was dropped because ...

SPAA voices concern over conflicted remuneration

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... of removing the opt-in arrangements. "It's our belief that these amendments will reduce compliance costs for financial advisers," Slattery said.

AMP axes regional head of advice roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... is in the process of "reevaluating where the best people need to be to best serve our planners" and highlighted that advisers will not be affected by the change. AMP head of financial planning in Victoria and Tasmania Thomas Reeh left in 2013 recently ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... now with the Coalition government and Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann," Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil Anderson also welcomed the document and said he remains optimistic that the bill will ...

Race among the advice giants: MAX

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... planning sector in the past five years or since the GFC. It found that around 35 adviser groups - representing 4,600 advisers - have been bought out or merged into other advice groups since 2008. This equates to a 25% churn ratio or a quarter of the ...

Financial Wisdom to face class action for poor advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... was an authorised representative of CBA-owned Financial Wisdom and a series of wrong behaviour by one of its financial advisers, Rollo Sherriff, were exposed by a recent joint Fairfax and ABC investigation. Shine Lawyers is inviting people who engaged ...

AFA launches 2014 mentoring program

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has launched its 2014/15 mentoring program, an annual initiative aimed at promoting professional standards and giving advice to young advisers. AFA GenXt National chair Fraser Jack said the mentoring program ...