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Futuro makes five key appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... senior strategy and research adviser, Brisbane-based iPlan has hired a planner, and Stablewealth in Perth has appointed a technical planner, para-planner and client service coordinator. "We believe there is more value to us, as an AFSL, in identifying ...

AIA launches adviser support service

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... online and through AIA's client development team, and provides planners with strategic business advice on issues such as technical support, fee-for-service, and AIA products. As part of the new hub, AIA has also released the AIA Connect iPhone app, which ...

PROFILE: SuperBPO chief executive Michael Houlihan

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... Prior to joining the super division of Group Benefits (now SuperBPO), Houlihan spent 10 years as head of product and technical services for both JBWere Investment Management and Vanguard Investments Australia. In between there were a couple of roles ...

BT Panorama aiming at advisers and SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
BT Financial Group's Panorama wealth operating system has reached a tipping point where the infrastructure is built and over the next year several releases will come to market. At a media briefing yesterday, BTFG general manager of platforms and operations ...

AMP to launch SMSF trustee course

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... early next year as part of a wider education strategy aimed at both advisers and trustees. AMP SMSF head of policy, technical and education services, Peter Burgess said the online course will be Australian Tax Office-approved and will include embedded ...

CFAs told ASIC is for the consumer

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
... which serves them: an instilled sense of ethics and market integrity, in other words, compliance; and high standards of technical excellence, or competence," Smith said.

Don't flood managed accounts with excess investment options: advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... the sector has become part of the wealth management mainstream. An offshoot of this is that arguments about the formal technical definitions of each type of managed account structure are not as relevant as they used to be. "There's no formal definition ...

Macquarie announces new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... Commenting on Warne's appointment, McCann said, "Peter is an experienced chairman and board director. He has brought many technical skills and industry knowledge to board and committee deliberations. "As a director of both the SFE and ASX, Peter gained ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... Already, Australian (per capita) living standards are stagnating, so for many this may feel like a recession, even if the technical definition of recession (two consecutive quarters of declining GDP) is not met." (The Conversation). "Australia will be ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Like most of Australia's major industries, the future prosperity for the financial services sector clearly lies in Asia. Australians constantly talk of the economic opportunity presented by the three billion people that will be in the Asian middle class ...