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Fiducian posts profits, eyes acquisitions

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... sheet, reported solid increases across its business with growth in the number of its franchised and salaried financial advisers and high client retention levels. It said it would assess future acquisitions that can be easily absorbed into the Fiducian ...

Austock improves, but remains in the red

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... new products, to result in further increases to FUM in 2011 The company said that it plans to increase the number of advisers and geographic focus of its private client and financial planning business, specifically targeting Australian Asian communities ...

Peering into the future

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... said platforms will need to do more to prove their value for money. "Platforms are deeper reservoirs of evil than the advisers are, so I actually think that at some stage there is going to be more onus on platforms to show that they deliver value," he ...

FSP appoints recruitment manager

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... with recruitment and acquisition. Financial Services Partners is a national financial planning business with financial advisers in every state and territory of Australia.

Abacus funds head exits

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... capital. He joins the firm after almost 10 years at Macquarie Group where he was division director of Macquarie Capital Advisers. He was responsible for the initiation and management of a range of real estate investment banking transactions including ...

AFA launches FOFA Working Group

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has launched the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) Working Group. "We believe the Working Group will lead the way in informing the Government on the real impact of reform on consumers, advisers, the financial ...

More wealth mgmt on web

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... need to distinguish themselves, rebrand themselves, continuously communicate their value proposition and educate their advisers," Cooke said. According to the group, 80 per cent of Australians are internet users across all demographics, which is up from ...

Investors call planners to charge performance-based fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... at this morning's Rainmaker Marketing Symposium, said an emerging trend among retail clients is their preference for advisers to charge performance-based fees, rather than a commission or asset-based model. "About 19 per cent of investors say their preferred ...

Tower names chief underwriter, new mgr

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... appointed two new senior managers to its risk new business team. "It is our objective to change the experience for financial advisers in delivering life solutions to their customers," said Luke Banfield, head of customer service and operations for retail ...

REST Super taps Asia directly

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... Hill, chief executive of REST Super, said key executives of the fund, along with asset consultants from Jana Investment Advisers (the fund's consultant), have made a visit to Asia to establish an on-the-ground gauge of the region's economic growth. Following ...