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David Hunt joins RI Advice

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... significant impact to practices, particularly in driving business growth via the opportunities opened up for quality advisers by the future of financial advice (FoFA) reforms" said Campbell. Hunt said that he was drawn to the competitive terms that position ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... 'strong capital generation.' The wealth creation business is also yielding some good results with the number of aligned advisers growing in 2012. These positives, however, offer scant consolation unless the restructure of the UK business begins to show ...

Mercer partners with superMate in SMSF market

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... self managed super fund (SMSF) administration provider 'superMate' is designed to allow accountants, wealth managers and advisers who administer SMSFs for trustees to obtain Mercer actuarial certificates from the latest release of the platform. David ...

ASIC seeks adviser feedback on FOFA code of conduct

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... conduct for exemption from opt-in requirement consultation paper 191, which was released late October, is relevant to advisers who are considering submitting either a new or existing code for approval. Peter Kell, commissioner at ASIC said that there ...

Advisers failing to engage disillusioned consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... Tim Browne, the Beddoes Institute's Dr Rebecca Sheils and AFA national president Brad Fox, said that the Australia's advisers must take it on themselves to attract the business of potential customers who simply don't know where to turn. Dr Sheils, leading ...

AFA: new lost super reforms a cash cow

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... Conference last week, chair Leigh Sales of the ABC asked Brad Fox, national president of the Association of Financial Advisers what he thought of the government's newly released lost super reforms. Fox replied that "we have had a concern right through ...

NAB profits slump but wealth division prospers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... second half of 2011. The report said that they wealth business has also seen an 8.7% increase in the number of aligned advisers. "Despite sluggish investment markets and an increase in insurance lapses, NAB Wealth grew both funds under management and ...

Lonsec and Milliman challenge current advice model for retirees

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... baby-boomers reaching retirement age, and the end of the bull market in Australian equities in 2008, many retirees - and their advisers - are questioning how they will meet their retirement needs in the future." Lukasz de Pourbaix, head of investment ...

Aligned or independent: Advisers must be relevant

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
Whether advisers choose to stand-alone or stand-aligned, they're both confronted with developing an advice model that resonates with the disparate needs of clients. That was the overarching sentiment a group of industry practitioners shared with delegates ...

Soft-skills critical to maximising adviser value-add

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... place. He admits that while most clients do need help with their claims, by far the bigger issue is establishing how advisers want their clients to feel when they ring to advise about an event they've experienced that's perceived to be directly outside ...