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BTIM to expand income boutique

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... launch a global fund with an Asian tilt. "We'll look at add a new product line to the income space, working closely with advisers and BT Financial Group to determine what the retiree market is looking for in terms of income and we'll hopefully be structuring ...

AFA unveils chartered fin practitioners

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
The Association of Financial Advisers has named its first eight Fellows of Chartered Financial Practitioners (FChFP), an accreditation program that works like a 'mini-MBA' for advisers. In a press statement released this morning, the AFA announced AFA ...

AIA moves to integrate retail offering

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... specialist, AIA Australia is focused on improving the ease with which individual risk products are made accessible to advisers and their clients," said Damien Mu, AIA Australia's chief distribution & marketing officer. "By providing advisers with the ...

Frozen fund investors get $36m settlement

COMMERCE COMMISSION RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... time. ANZ National Bank and ING NZ accepted that some of the representations made in the marketing material and by ANZ advisers may have breached the Fair Trading Act.

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

... operational across AMP's planning practices on 1 July), their next strategy is to increase the accessibility of their advisers through 'main street' shopfronts. "We think we're being pretty innovative in the advice space. We've got the Horizons academy ...

AFAC and APESB launch fresh debate on fiduciary duty

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MEDIA RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... issues contained in the proposed standard. "There's a range of issues which are common to accountant-based financial advisers and, in particular, if there are standards being developed by the professional bodies, such as the APESB, we thought a sensible ...

Tower and IRESS launch Accelerate Connect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Tower Australia and IRESS Market Technology have launched Accelerate Connect -providing advisers with a straight through link from comparison to the application process on the same screen. Accelerate Connect allows advisers to launch the TOWER Australia ...

Manion joins Snowball

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... planning experience is a big plus for the group's planners. "Sally's first hand experience of the challenges faced by advisers and the importance of management skills will certainly help her make a positive contribution towards Snowball's drive for sustainable ...

The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... this morning used the app to complete groundbreaking research into the vexed issue of commissions versus fees in how advisers should be paid. The Ask Octopus app came down in favour of fees in only six of 10 attempts, unfortunately failing to resolve ...

Planners rank high on client scorecard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... skeptical, research shows. According to research by CoreData-brandmanagement, commissioned by the Association of Financial Advisers, investors gave advisers rating of 7.5 out of 10, ranking them among the top three most trusted people who give professional ...