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Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
Australia may have the most adequate pension system in the world but it doesn't necessarily guarantee it being the most sustainable. Rankings for the 2015 Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI) were released last night and Australia has slipped ...

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
The government is determined to raise the professional standards of financial advisers, and it will do it by passing new legislation, it said in its response to the Financial System Inquiry. The government will develop legislative amendments that will ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... aptitude for business strategy, telling him he needed to find a way to do it full-time. That's when Sowerby put in place a plan to set up Blue Sky, having identified what he calls the investment opportunity of a lifetime when water licenses and land ...

HNW Planning ramps up high-touch advice with netwealth managed accounts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
HNW Planning has struck a managed accounts deal with platform provider netwealth in its ongoing bid to deliver cutting-edge financial advice to its clients. The NSW-based dealer group's principal Robert Cumming said that they have for the past two years ...

SSFS rebrands, launches digital advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
State Super Financial Services has rebranded and unveiled its new digital advice channel. Now known as StatePlus, the wealth management company is focusing on developing its digital strategy, building out facilities for digital advice delivery (including ...

Lift-off off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
"Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term." These were the words in the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement of ...

Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Frontier Advisors has attracted a former Mercer principal as a senior consultant amid plans to increase the independent firm's retirement solutions advice. Joining Frontier Advisors and leading its Retirement Solutions Group from 19 October will be ...

Use of bank-aligned advisers in decline

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Consumer demand to deal with banks through their aligned financial planners is going down and it is being replaced by the internet. The latest Roy Morgan's Single Source surveyed over 50,000 people and found that the number of bank clients using their ...

Philanthropists award $1.5m to medical researchers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
The Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundations have distributed almost $1.5 million to seven biomedical researchers. The foundations' trustee, Perpetual, confirmed that $1 million of the philanthropic funds will go towards research that is looking to reduce ...

New super Shadow Minister as PM acknowledges Labor's plans

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
New Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Jim Chalmers, said he will build on Labor's proud record in superannuation and advance a "more resilient, fair and competitive financial system." Chalmers joined several first-term Labor ...