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Zurich appoints investment specialist

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed an investment specialist in its strategic accounts and research team. Charles Stodart joins Zurich from Five Oceans Asset Management, where he was an investment analyst for Asian equities and global ...

Adviser input key to super fund switch: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... input has become essential for a third of superannuation fund members who want to change funds, the latest Roy Morgan research revealed. The proportion of super fund members who seek advice from financial planners to switch their superannuation fund ...

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... advice and 12% on wealth management advisers. About 30% did not seek advice about investments. The ASX's qualitative research highlighted that "most direct investors' need for advice is more complex and nuanced." At the same time, only 53% of full service ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... system will not be able to support future generations if they continue to retire at 60. The Productivity Commission's research suggests lifting the Preservation Age from 55 to 65 will boost end superannuation retirement nest eggs and save about $7 billion ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... declared "no evidence of front-running" according to Kelaher. PwC has been commissioned again for a review of IOOF's advice research division following allegations of wrongdoing largely made public by Fairfax. Kelaher said he was concerned about the ...

Lift preservation age to 65, save $7bn annually

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... policymakers are pushing ahead with proposals to lift the Preservation Age. The Productivity Commission (PC) has just released research that they believe shows lifting the Preservation Age from its current 55 to 65 years of age. According to the PC ...

BT launches direct investment platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... make changes to their portfolio. "The need to lower the entry barriers to investing was a key theme we picked up in our research, with many people citing that they were looking for a way to help grow their investments and realise goals such as saving ...

Super fund members switching at record rates: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
Australians are paying attention to the superannuation conversation with new data showing super members are switching funds at a level not seen since 2010. Eleven per cent of super members switched funds last year, up from 9% in 2013. About 5% are intending ...

AMP practices embrace PractiFI platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... registry, policy administration, and telephony systems for financial advice practices and recently added Omnium insurance research tool OmniLife to its suite of services. Speaking about OmniLife, PractiFI chief executive Glenn Elliott said that "PractiFI ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... hiring staff the discrimination of applicants from EU partner countries would be illegal, for example." ( Deutsche Bank Research Team EU Monitor ). The Deutsche Bank Research Team said this just about this time last year (14 July) when it published its ...