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HUB24 platform adds two dealer groups

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... which now has 42 financial planning groups. Melbourne-based Unison Financial Group and Sydney-based New World Financial Advisers have been the latest dealer groups to join the HUB24 platform. Both groups have implemented customised managed portfolios ...

FoFA still in need of changes: industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... "It's only an administration point, the pillars of FoFA are education, training and the best interest duty, that's what advisers should be focusing on," FPA general manager of Policy and Standards Dante De Gori said. "There are parts of FoFA that need ...

More than 8,000 advisers using IRESS XPLAN

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
More than 8,000 advisers have opted for IRESS' XPLAN-CommPay solution to meet the Fee Disclosure Statement (FDS) requirements brought in by the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, the software provider has said. According to IRESS, the 'vast ...

Industry welcomes grandfathering extension

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has welcomed the Senate approval of the grandfathering regulation, one of the last pending aspects of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation. The Senate vote has given the industry 12 more months ...

AIA Priority Protection added to Asgard

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... Asgard superannuation platform. AIA said a third of risk business in Australia is now being written via platforms and advisers increasingly see them as a means to reduce their administrative and regulatory burden. General Manager of Life Insurance, Damien ...

Platforms surpass pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... of the market. "We have built a diversified business model and we have the scale to invest in service capabilities for advisers and in increasing efficiency," Power said. The consolidation in the industry could also behind the growth of platforms, Power ...

Aon Hewitt partners with EQT

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Aon Hewitt has selected Equity Trustees Limited (EQT) to provide an estate planning referral service for its advisers. The partnership will give Aon Hewitt's financial adviser network access to EQT's estate planning and wills specialists. "Australia's ...

AMP targets SMSFs for infrastructure and property funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... majority is in residential property. AMP Capital's director of retail and corporate business Craig Keary said trustees and advisers tend to view infrastructure and commercial property as hard to access. But this, he says, is a misconception. "These investments ...

But industry bodies see FoFA delay "unlikely"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... as soon as possible, but those provisions don't come in until July 2014," Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operation officer Phil Anderson also said that "a change to the FoFA starting date is quite unlikely, given the ...

UK RDR market impacts gathering pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
Four in 10 UK financial advisers believe that, due to the impact of the Retail Distribution Review, within three years they will have closed down, merged or been acquired. The stark results are based on an ongoing survey program by the actionconsulting ...