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SPAA makes key corporate services appointments

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
The SMSF Professional's' Association of Australia (SPAA) has appointed two executives to focus on corporate development and corporate services. Richard Hockney will be SPAA's general manager of corporate development, while Joshua Geers has been appointed ...

Banks support the "original" FoFA intent: ABA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) said that the industry supports the original Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation, which focused largely on consumer protection. The ABA came out shortly after Industry Super Australia (ISA) accused ...

EQT strengthens estate planning team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
Equity Trustees (EQT) has appointed two solicitors to support the growth of its estate planning and wills business. Catherine Elversson and Andrew Woods will be reporting to EQT national manager estate planning Anna Hacker. Elverson will be based in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... simmering tensions in the Ukraine and events in Thailand following a military coup, while movements in the yen will also be in focus, analysts say. On Friday, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index added 0.87 per cent, or 124.38 points, to close at 14,462.17 ...

Intra-fund advice is also a commission: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) said that asking for a ban of commissions on general advice is "hypocritical" when intra fund advice itself is "non-transparent." FSC policy and global markets director Andrew Bragg and senior policy manager Cecilia ...

Kearns steps down as Centric Wealth CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
... Wealth, its staff and clients. "The team was incredibly diligent in their commitment and unwavering client service. This focus has delivered the success Centric Wealth has achieved to date and positioned the business for its next phase of growth." He ...

MySuper dashboards, ASIC warns trustees

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2014
Following a regulatory review of MySuper product dashboards, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued extra guidance to superannuation trustees about how they need to be handled. The guidance update focuses on how the dashboards ...

Blue Sky directors buy stake in Alternatives Fund IPO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Three Blue Sky Alternative Investments non-independent board members will invest at least $1.35 million in aggregate through the initial public offering of the manager's Alternatives Fund. Blue Sky chairman John Kain, Alexander McNab and Andrew Champion's ...

BT adds new capabilities to wrap platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
BT Wrap has added bulk linking and rebalancing to its model portfolio offering in a move it says will allow dealer groups and advisers "to create even greater efficiencies in managing their client portfolios." The new capabilities will allow advisers ...

When Maslow's Theory and Marketing Collide

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." - Peter Drucker, father of modern management and marketing If marketing is so important to a business, why is it often the first thing cut when times are tough? Why chop one of two things ...