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First Financial joins BT Select

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... Financial has $1.1 billion in funds under advice, 60 staff, including 17 financial planners, four lending and finance advisers, and a self-managed super fund (SMSF) administration team "First Financial's future growth aspirations are very exciting and ...

AIA pays advisers to move to hybrid commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
AIA Australia will pay advisers who move to a hybrid commission model, despite the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) concerns on inappropriate insurance switching. The insurer said that a hybrid structure could increase the value ...

Henderson reports record profit

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... Andrew Formica said the group's Australian business was "growing quickly" after it acquired commodity specialist H3 Global Advisers and 33% of 90 West in April and November last year, respectively. Formica also suggested the global asset manager, which ...

ClearView reports $9.1 million profit

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... life insurance provider saw a growth in funds under management of 14%, hitting $1.63 billion. It also saw the number of advisers increase from 94 this time last year to 109. ClearView managing director Simon Swanson said: "It is both exciting and encouraging ...

Treasury looks at further FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... confidential proposals to reverse rules that ban conflicted remuneration arrangements for corporate super specialist advisers, according to Douglas Latto, president of the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA). Traditionally corporate super advisers ...

IOOF reports growth across the board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... horizon - apart from the potential winding back of the future of financial advice reforms, which would be favourable IOOF's advisers - trading conditions were "optimal". He also cited the potential opening up of the modern awards system as a bonus. "The ...

Financial Index launches low-cost advice platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... Financial Index Wealth Accountants chief executive Spiro Paule said. "We're not targeting Australians currently using advisers who, from our understanding of this market segment, are unlikely to change their habits and go online," he added. Financial ...

SFG growth not affected by FoFA changes

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... managing director Tony Fenning attributed the double-digit growth to an improvement in financial markets. Mosaic Portfolio Advisers, SFG managed investment schemes business, kept growing organically during the first half of financial year 2014. The Mosaic ...

GenYs shy away from independent, professional advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
Young Australians rely mostly on family, friends and banks for financial advice, while accountants and financial advisers are out of favour, RaboDirect research has found. The 2013 RaboDirect National Savings & Debt Barometer (NSDB) found that 36% of ...

S&P DJI eyes aligned advice groups with new role

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... preferred lists and to have bank networks that only sell their own products." SPDJI is looking for someone to work with the advisers and bank managers to get the lay of the land in this as yet uncharted territory. "Historically we've worked with the ...