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Providers not meeting demand for aged care products

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Product providers are being slow at providing advisers with tools adapted to the new aged care legislation coming in on July 2014. "For lots of advisers specialised in aged care, there are not enough tools and all the work around calculations is pretty ...

MetLife launches long-awaited retirement product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... figure will become the guaranteed figure. Despite the apparent complexity of the product, Arora said independent financial advisers, through whom MetLife will distribute the product, had responded very favourably. Local Government Super has also entered ...

AFA Plan For Life - Life Company Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... quality levels, and the extent to which they understand and cater to the insurance needs of Australians and their financial advisers. The Platinum award will recognize the overall winner, which is the company that achieves the highest combined scores ...

Compliance costs Aussie advisers $15k versus global peers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
The extra time Australian advisers spend on administration and compliance compared to global advisers is costing them more than $15,000 a year, according to research by CoreData. Administration and compliance make up about 30% of Australian advisers' ...

BT Life appoints chief underwriter

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... focusing on the underwriting, claims and new business teams' responsiveness to customers' needs and partnership with advisers. Zarzeczny has held senior positions in product, sales and underwriting, and has 20 years' industry experience. "I'm passionate ...

Advice numbers and client claims hit PIS results

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... said that it experienced a fall of adviser numbers in the last three years. Rainmaker figures show that PIS had 1,257 advisers in March 2011, but only 533 in September 2013. PIS claimed that during the first half of financial year 2014 "PIS has stabilised ...

FEATURE: Advisers go solo

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014

Synchron pushes for providers' direct payment

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
Synchron and law firm Lander & Rogers are seeking to amend the Corporations Law Act to allow financial advisers to receive payments directly from providers. The licensee will be making a submission to Treasury to amend Section 911A of the Act, which ...

GPS Wealth launches a new MDA

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... establishing an investment committee. GPS Wealth was established in 2012 by former Professional Investment Services (PIS) advisers Greg Holman and Rob McGregor. It now has over 50 planners and 32 practices in New South Wales and Queensland.

Bennelong WP creates CIO position

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... strengthen the business into a solution driven equity ownership model. "Our equity model is particularly attractive to wealth advisers, because we not only provide the licensing and shared services, but also dedicated bespoke services," Rowland said. ...