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Planners race to plug gap in aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... specialists within financial planning. Last year, Equity Trustees put together a team of 70 people to help financial advisers better understand aged care. "It is a challenge because if the adviser is not a specialist, it is easy to get it wrong and make ...

Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
Women have little trust in financial advisers and have raised concerns about "product pushing," preliminary results of research about how women manage money have revealed In the first stage of the research, professor Roslyn Russell from RMIT University ...

EBX launches online tool to purchase endowment bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... days of the bonds June 30 maturity date in the chosen year. EBX expects its main distribution channel to be financial advisers and accountants, but individual investors and self-managed super fund (SMSF) holders can also benefit from it. "It is an ideal ...

Image of financial advisers still low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
Financial planners are respected by almost twice as many people as union leaders, but they lag nurses, doctors, pharmacists and school teachers by more than three to one. Roy Morgan has just released its latest consumer survey rating the annual image ...

Nominations open for AFA Excellence in Education award

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has opened the nominations for the sixth AFA Excellence in Education Award, which recognises advisers committed to lifelong learning. Nominations close on May 24 with the first round of interviews being held ...

Regulation blamed for perceived fall in advisers' ability

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013

ASIC MDA review requires further clarity: IMAP

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... Wealth have welcomed the release and said: "We may see some platforms withdrawing this type of discretionary service for advisers due to the additional licensing requirements and also some restructuring of the way fees are charged, as some operators ...

Rainmaker Group appoints Professional Standards Officer

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... monitoring of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program developed by Rainmaker and available to financial advisers, dealer groups and super funds. It is also available to premium subscribers to the Financial Standard newspaper. He will also ...

MFAA to train advisers on direct property for SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
The Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) has announced that it will train credit advisers on the opportunities that direct property investments may offer self- managed super funds (SMSF). The MFAA estimated that direct property investment ...

BDO appointed administrator of the AFS Group

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... the AFS Group to assess its future viability. BDO Australia has recognised that the AFS Group has actively worked with advisers with respect to a transfer to alternate licensees, however BDO said that this process was unable to be finalised due to the ...