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Planners race to plug gap in aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... data, and it saw its annuities product line increase sales by 55% to $1.98 billion last year. Challenger chief executive Richard Howes said the dearth in aged care products was partly a result of the market's focus on accumulation prior to the GFC. AMP's ...

SPAA approves government's response to Trio reports

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... financial services company because the licensee has disappeared or become insolvent. The government accepted the advice in Richard St John's report that such a scheme would be "inappropriate and possibly counter-productive". "SPAA will continue to advocate ...

Opposition and VOFF criticise response to Trio report

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... Financial Fraud (VOFF) have criticised the government's response to the reports by the Parliamentary Joint Committee and Richard St. John on the collapse of Trio Capital. Shadow minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann said ...

UK to tax platform rebates as income

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... shoe-horned down this route with the banning of trail commission on new investment and changes to existing ones," wrote Richard Fyfe, a UK chartered financial adviser, in an opinion piece that appeared on the FTAdviser news service. Fyfe's comments are ...

Fund managers tip great returns on US investments

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... found a general optimism about the outlook for global equities - in particular the US. Fidelity head of global equities Richard Lewis said the shale gas revolution would help re-industrialise the US. "The US has always been a champion of innovation and ...

Former Citigroup broker convicted for insider trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... Hebbard, who was 75 and an employee of Citigroup in Perth, communicated the inside information to a fellow broker, Mark Richard McKenzie. The fact that Hebbard had failed to adhere to his obligations as a broker was a factor taken into account in sentence. ...

First State Super CIO departs

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... Mark Sainsbury will retire from his position and leave the fund in May 2013. His departure follows the the appointment of Richard Brandweiner as director of investment services last week. Brandweiner joined from Perpetual, where he was group executive ...

Towers Watson builds Investment team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... appointed two new investment analysts in its Melbourne office. Jonathan Grigg has joined the client consulting team and Richard Cooney has been transferred from the Superannuation Consulting team, where he will focus on client consulting and strategy. ...

Planners must boost SMSF specialisation: SPAA

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... other business structures SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) membership and business development director Richard Magney told an industry panel event yesterday. "A seismic shift in how the adviser re-engages with the Trustee is around ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... have opened weaker, with mining companies posting the largest falls amid broad based declines. Baillieu Holst director Richard Morrow said the local market fell in line with a disappointing night on offshore markets, where the Dow slipped 0.76 per cent ...