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Shadow shop reveals service gap among planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
A secret "shadow shopping" exercise on the services provided by the Industry Funds Financial Planning (IFFP) group found their advisers are not as good as independent financial advisers (IFAs) and bank-aligned planners. The CoreData report, The Industry ...

Finance jobs to shine in 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Morgan McKinley. According to the Morgan McKinley 2010 Salary Survey, over 40 per cent of financial services business expect basic salaries to rise within their business. A telephone survey of senior level finance, operational and HR managers working ...

AFS to launch SMSF admin service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... Class Super and would be launched next month. The administration service would come in two versions, one that provides a basic SMSF setup service and another that presents a range of additional options for sophisticated clients. "As a practitioner, you ...

Low rates to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
How many times do I have to say it? The US Federal Reserve would not raise interest rates until the American economy has stronger legs to stand on. This is basically what Chairman Benny told US and world financial markets when he spoke before the Economic ...

SMSFs not exempt from tough reviews: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... he stressed that the Government is not in the business of telling people where they should put their money. "At the very basic level, it's people's money. So if they choose to manage it themselves, I am not interested in stopping them." On the subject ...

No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
ING Australia has built itself into one of the best financial brands in Australia but that is the last thing on the minds of ING's European head office battling to repay their $40 billion in government bail-out debt as fast as they can. The pressure ...

EISS appoints Mercer as consultant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
The $2 billion plus NSW-based Energy Industries Superannuation Scheme has appointed Mercer as its new asset consultant. According to an October newsletter of EISS, which caters to employees working in the energy industry in New South Wales, Mercer was ...

Centro execs to face tough penalties

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
The regulator has launched proceedings against the chair, chief executive, chief financial officer and five other directors of entities within Centro Properties Group and Centro Retail Group for misleading accounting practices. The action includes Brian ...

Ignorance is not financial bliss: Fidelity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... Investments show that many Americans are not maximising their retirement savings simply because they don't understand the basic differences between the IRAs available in the market. For example, unlike the traditional IRA, a product called the Roth IRA ...

ANZ buys ING Aus for $1.76bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
ANZ goes up the ranks of the wealth management and life insurance sectors when it acquired the 51 per cent stake it did not own in a joint venture with ING Group for $1.76 billion - transforming it into a $45 billion fund manager with more than 1,700 ...