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OC Funds unveils distribution strategy, appoints Purpura

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
OC Funds Management has appointed Peter Purpura, former managing director of Fisher Graham Financial, as its head of retail distribution, who will head a more aggressive distribution strategy for the firm. In addition to his former position at Fisher ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The Australian share market was down in intra-day trading by noon, but gained off its lows of the session, buoyed by earnings results. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 35.6 points lower, or 0.8 per cent, at 4,424.0 points, while the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was higher at noon as resource companies underpin the local bourse. At 1215 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 26.6 points, or 0.59 per cent, at 4,568.7 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index had risen 26.9 ...

Aon ramps up insurance and pensions

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... introduction of default insurance for new personal super members, for example, will offer better protection to members by providing basic cover without having to go through underwriting, said Peter Lewis, head of retirement products at Aon Consulting. ...

GESB unveils opt-in insurance for casuals

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
... when they start employment with a new employer or with the public sector. The changes mean casuals will not have automatic basic cover unless they choose to adopt cover. a It means, though, that insurance premiums will not be deducted from their account ...

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

... access to common office facilities provided by AMP. The office will allow the planner's existing clients and passersby to get basic to comprehensive financial advice. While the details are yet to be finalised, the shop will work like any other retail ...

AAS, Pillar and Superpartners brace for SuperStream

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
Three of Australia's largest fund administrators - AAS, Pillar Administration and Superpartners - have formed an affiliation that will take on board the recommendations from the Cooper Review to improve super fund back office efficiencies. The Superannuation ...

Back to basics key to planners successs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... descriptions and key performance indicators for all staff that are clearly linked to achieving business goals. Despite these fairly basic strategies, the study found more than 60 per cent of boutique firms do not have KPIs in place that can link staff ...

AFS deal raises Asian opportunities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
Dealer group Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) remains mum on the identity of its potential buyer but said the deal could potentially open up its financial planners to clients and products outside Australia, particularly in the broader Asian ...

PIS to step up competition in cash savings

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... financial planning groups in the country with funds under advice of around $21 billion, PIS has grown from providing the basic services you'd expect from a planner to a 38-company business with its own funds management and platform operation. This month ...