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Cost pressures spark Vanguard fee cuts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
Vanguard has reduced management fees on seven wholesale investment products, in a response to the high level of marketplace price sensitivity. Robyn Laidlaw, Vanguard's head of product management said their scale made the price cut possible. "As a subsidiary ...

MLC appoints head of practice management

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
MLC Advice Solutions and Godfrey Pembroke have appointed Jasia Fabig to the newly created role of head of practice management. Fabig's new role will start mid July and see her lead and develop MLC's practice management offering. Fabig has 17 years experience ...

SuperStream passes Lower House

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... minister for superannuation and financial services. Brendan O'Connor, minister for small business, said, "These reforms cut red tape for small business owners and make it easier for employers to manage their employees' entitlements." But while the government ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
No mas por fabor ! You're probably as tired sick of reading about Greece, Spain, QEs and changing rhetoric from the who's who of the G-20 as I am writing about them. Good thing equity markets in Australia and Asia were able to celebrate Greece's decision ...

Plum upgrades online investment services

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
Plum has upgraded its online education centre and launched new benefit projection features in an effort to encourage more direct member engagement. The new features will enable members to model potential retirement outcomes and compare multiple scenarios. ...

Fin services GDP share to shrink by 2050

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
The information communication technology revolution will propel Australia by 2050 to become a $4 trillion digital economy but the productivity, disintermediation and globalisation forces it will unleash on financial services may, perversely, see the ...

Sequencing risk impacts super savings

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
The post-global financial crisis combined with longevity issues has brought strategies to manage sequencing risk to the forefront in Australia, according to Chad Padowitz, chief investment officer at Wingate Asset Management. Although many retirees ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
Up and down it goes, where it ends nobody knows. Wall Street was down again last night, after being up the previous day and down the day before. This sawtooth trading pattern hardly comes as a surprise given the great uncertainty over the outcome of ...

ASIC streamlines AFS licence process

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... Securities & Investments Commission has updated its Australian financial services licence application process in an effort to cut red tape and make registration and licensing more efficient. Revisions to Australian Securities & Investments Commission's ...

Advisers ready to move clients back to equities

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
Zurich's investment business in Australia has released new findings that show more than half of advisers surveyed are ready to re-balance their customers' portfolios to hold less cash. The nationwide survey of 200 advisers showed that 68% indicated ...