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Best Interest drives advisers away from products

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
The Best Interest Duty provision of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation is designed to make planners give comprehensive advice in a process where recommending a product is "the last piece of the puzzle." At the end of the advice process ...

The recession we are promised to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... as the Australian market opens flat. The big banks, however, are rallying as financial markets continue to expect an interest rate cut in August. RBS Morgans Ipswich manager Tony Russell said that after several days of gains, resource stocks were being ...

Tyndall concentrated fund gets Zenith 'recommended' rating

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... investor mandates. It is managed by Tyndall AM portfolio managers Jason Kim and Tim Johnston. There has been substantial interest from the retail market since launch. "This is testament to the quality of the team behind the fund and the long-standing ...

Connections key to succession planning

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Having a good relationship clients and staff as well as good connections within the community are key when it comes the time to sell a financial planning business, Guardian Advice executive manager Simon Harris said. Speaking at an Association of Financial ...

SFG to look at WHK acquisition after reporting season

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... an initial proposal on May 2013. A SFGA spokesperson told Financial Standard that the company has not completely lost interest on a potential WHK merger and it is "still having conversations with WHK." In May, SFGA managing director Tony Fenning already ...

Super fund returns as good as it gets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... pa. Rainmaker noted that the robust returns recovery was initially driven by strong returns from actively managed fixed interest before the investment lead was taken over by the share market rally and then the recent depreciation in the A$. But they ...

SMSFs lose majority of cases against ATO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) trustees are unlikely to win court cases against the Australian Tax Office, according to David Hughes, a partner at law firm Small Myers Hughes. Speaking at the SPAA State Technical Conference in Sydney yesterday ...

Scaled advice to shape industry future

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms will bring an increase of demand for scaled advice over the long term and the cost of advice will go down, Rice Warner research commissioned by Industry Super Network (ISN) found. The report based on modelling ...

A-REITS rewarded for cleaning up act

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... a favourable earnings outlook, helped by the improved health in A-REIT finances. "The global quest for yield in a low interest rate environment has had quite an impact, with offshore and local investors attracted to the sector by the strong distribution ...