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Use super to help pay health costs: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
Superannuation contributions should be used to help pay spiralling health care costs, the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) said in a recent report. The CEDA report, Healthcare: Reform or Ration, said in the five decades between ...

Platforms press on in advice battleground

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... higher staffing and administration costs and the ability to save on platform fees for specific clients is a very real incentive. In a best of both worlds approach, Wealth Enhancers offers both on-platform solutions and an off-platform option for its ...

Brogden reaffirms campaign warning to politicians

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... proposals, particularly the raising of the concessional contributions cap to $35,000 for people over 60. "This is an incentive for mature Australians to contribute more to their savings," he said. However, he said the FSC would be ready to act if there ...

CEOs face pay cuts: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
The chief executive's of a number of major ASX100 companies have seen their pay drop due to lower incentive payments during financial year 2011-12, Citi research has found. Even though the decreases have not been in all companies, chief executives of ...

Super election infighting intensifies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
Superannuation is hotting up as one of the most emotive battlegrounds on which the Federal election will be fought. A new survey from Sunsuper, published last week, finds that more than two-thirds of Australians (68%) believe that superannuation will ...

Admin costs rise four-fold off-platform: research

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... equal higher staffing and administration costs and the ability to save on platform fees for specific clients a very real incentive. "Administration costs used to be an issue, but now with [software] systems and access to brokers, it's actually not that ...

Adviser-client communication directly linked to profits: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... and only 15% seek client feedback regularly, while the other 85% don't. "This data shows that there's definitely an incentive to implement a communication program in practices," AIA Australia head of retail Pina Sciarrone said. To Business Health partner ...

More details needed on conflicted remuneration guide

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... submission document to ASIC have not come forward in the final guidance. Anderson mentioned matters such as the employee incentive arrangement, where the ASIC gives examples but does not clarify how a licensee will set up a remuneration incentive that ...

Advisers at risk over asset-based fees

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2013
... client tells their financial adviser that they want advice on a certain pool of assets, then in most cases there is no incentive for the adviser to do anything other than recommend products that will grow the assets they have been charged with, said ...

Half of adviser practices in poor health: Securitor

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2013
The health of Australia's advice industry has deteriorated since 2010, according to Securitor's new report. The Future Ready V whitepaper provides an analysis of what is best practice in the advice industry based on Business Health's HealthCheck data ...