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Macquarie Life outperforms in satisfaction stakes

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... for the fifth consecutive year, making it the only provider in the Australian insurance market to achieve such a feat. Advisers provided Macquarie Life with an overall satisfaction rating of 82 percent, significantly outperforming the industry average ...

Macquarie launches SMSF Toolkit for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Macquarie Group has launched a Self Managed Super Funds Toolkit for advisers. The new service allows advisers to find all kinds of information and tools about SMSF in the one place, including calculators from Macquarie MAStech team, which calculate ...

SMSF trustees confident backing their limited advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
New research reveals enormous opportunities for Australia's financial advisers to help their clients, with self managed super funds, diversify their portfolios better. Launched on the eve of the 2013 SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) ...

Most DIY funds won't change allocations in retirement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... number," of trustees had or would change allocations, the 56.1% who have no plans to is proof that Australia's financial advisers should shoulder their role of investment "coach," said Russell Investments Asia Pacific CEO Alan Schoenheimer, at the report's ...

QROP advise must improve: AMP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... which may not always be in the client's best interests if doing so restricts their ability to use the money. Singh said advisers also need to be mindful of clients' superannuation contribution limits here in Australia. "The actual definition of whether ...

ME Bank launches premium treasury service

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
ME Bank will launch a new premium treasury service for wealth management advisers at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Melbourne on Wednesday. According to ME Bank general manager liabilities Michael Donohue, the ...

Fewer asset consultants dominate super fund space

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... manager and investment strategy. However, Rainmaker analysis suggests that the influence of a small handful of these advisers is being diluted due to consolidation between asset consultants. "While asset consultants are still used, funds increasingly ...

ASIC cancels national planning firm's license

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... had breached the majority of its license obligations. Specifically, the Sydney-based firm which had a network of 186 advisers, had failed to maintain sufficient financial resources, did not have the means in place to identify who its representatives ...

How advisers can double their business value

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... desktop administration and investment management software will accelerate the next evolution of Advice business models as advisers recognise the importance of deriving genuine profits in their business."

AMP launches new iPad app for advisers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
AMP has launched an iPad application for its Financial Advice Network advisers that it said is integrated with their back-office systems. Today AMP said that it had launched Evolve, an iPad app featuring advice tools that are fully integrated with advisers' ...