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FEATURE: Guiding the way to aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... with means would pay more in the future for aged care cost. This means that the calculations have shifted from an income focus to an asset focus. "Older people are often asset rich but income poor. As superannuation savings, work and the Age Pension ...

Better use of client information essential to adviser success

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
Financial advisers have more information about their clients than almost any other industry and they should be using it to improve their service, netwealth executive director Matt Heine said. "Throughout the fact finding process we collect more information ...

ASIC to renew focus on misleading advertising

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... and Investments Commission (ASIC) has listed advertising of financial products as one of the current and future areas of focus in its latest enforcement report. The regulator has achieved 256 enforcement outcomes in the six months to June 30, 2014. The ...

Default pensions 'very logical' solution: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
A MySuper-style default retirement product could be "a very logical" way to encourage retirees to take income streams rather than lump sums, according to Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden. Brogden's comments came in response ...

Fitzpatricks hires former CFSGAM head of marketing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... media attention around the value of financial planning, we see it as an unprecedented opportunity to position the group's focus on client outcomes in wealth creation and preservation, delivered through the highest of ethical standards. "Australia needs ...

Drastically limit number of default funds: Grattan CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... therefore we are going passive," unless it made sense value-wise. Caresuper's Julie Lander, meanwhile, questioned the exclusive focus on cost. "We believe that focusing purely on costs does not necessarily deliver the best outcomes and at CareSuper ...

Lonsec makes portfolio manager changes after review

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Following a strategic asset allocation (SAA) and model portfolio review, Lonsec 's Core Model Portfolios will now have a more balanced allocation between global and Australian equities and an increased allocation to alternative assets. The investment ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... reason may be more brutal: an industry wide 45% decline in policies sold to individuals because consumers have shifted their focus from life insurance to retirement products, according to the insurance industry research firm Limra. The change in insurance ...

In the throes of change

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Michael Hewitt-Gleeson (School of Thinking) and Rebecca Costa (The Impact of Big Data). Capping the conference will be a focus on Australian and overseas economies by RBC Capital Markets' AU/NZ head of economics and fixed income strategy Su-Lin Ong ...

Boost from Chinese stimulus to be short-lived

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... division has lowered its suggested allocation to emerging markets as the Chinese economy struggles to transition from a focus on exports to a focus on domestic consumption. Dr Jiming Ha, vice chairman and chief investment strategist of the Goldman Sachs' ...