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Trust eyes global investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Trust Company is expanding its responsible entity (RE) business to attract mandates from international investors and in a separate move, is placing its financial planning arm under a strategic review. John Atkins, who took on the role of managing director ...

New fin planning chief at UniSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
The $21 billion UniSuper has appointed former BT head of advice services, Chris Davies, to the new role of executive manager, financial planning. The appointment follows UniSuper's decision to launch its full service financial planning arm in late 2009. ...

Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Commodities is the new asset class in the Securitor Select Blend Portfolios. Pat Farrell, head of BT Investment Solutions and a speaker at last week's Securitor conference in Darwin, said commodities were included as an asset class of its own in the ...

Best of the best at Securitor

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
From rising stars to the top performing financial planning practices, Securitor has picked the cream of the crop for this year's awards ceremony held at the Securitor conference in Darwin. The Securitor practice of the year award was handed out to Primewealth ...

Excess choice boosts advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Scared of losing your financial planning job? Don't worry as too much investment choice leave investors befuddled, in turn driving the need for more good advisers. Barry Wyatt, national manager business development, AXA Australia, and speaker at the ...

US employees flee pension plans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Up to 60 per cent of US companies are seeing their employees postpone retirement plans and reduce pension plan participation. Dissaffected employees are also increasing hardship withdrawals, according to a new Towers Perrin survey. US employees are ...

Norway SWF adopts ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
One of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global is putting more emphasis on responsible investing with tighter regulations on environmental, social and good corporate governance. The fund previously had two ...

Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Advisers are severely lacking in their knowledge of financial history - and if this trend remains, their lack of wisdom will only contribute to future financial crisis, said a global expert. Alan McFarlane, chief executive of Edinburgh-based Walter ...

Clients listen, but switch anyway

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
More than two thirds of investors listen to the advice of financial advisers, but 40 per cent are willing to make investment switches without consulting their planner, according to a new Securitor survey. Geoff Lloyd, general manager, advice and private ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Allowing SG to be lowered, even just temporarily to help stimulate the economy, would be an economic disaster, warned former Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. At the end of last year, a group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the ...