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Excess choice boosts advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... planning job? Don't worry as too much investment choice leave investors befuddled, in turn driving the need for more good advisers. Barry Wyatt, national manager business development, AXA Australia, and speaker at the Securitor conference in Darwin ...

Fee-for-service cuts planner revenue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... living," said Viskovic. Advice businesses most effected are those based on asset-linked fee revenue, however very few advisers had changed their method of charging as a result of the current climate, she said. The problem for advisers trying to make ...

PIS partners with health advisory service

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... said the joint venture was one of a number new services the Group was introducing to better service its clients. "As advisers, we have to ensure that we continually strive to find better ways to look after the best interests of our clients,'' said Bennetts. ...

Clients listen, but switch anyway

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
More than two thirds of investors listen to the advice of financial advisers, but 40 per cent are willing to make investment switches without consulting their planner, according to a new Securitor survey. Geoff Lloyd, general manager, advice and private ...

Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
Advisers are severely lacking in their knowledge of financial history - and if this trend remains, their lack of wisdom will only contribute to future financial crisis, said a global expert. Alan McFarlane, chief executive of Edinburgh-based Walter ...

AXA recruits 13 overseas planners

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... received more than 280 applications from South Africa and the UK. "We took the view that we will recruit the best quality advisers wherever they may reside. Besides the taxation environment, South Africa and the UK have a reasonably similar advice regime ...

Macquarie buys remaining Olicc shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... the Coin system, we can now work more closely on integrating the two offerings to provide additional benefits to those advisers who wish to utilise more." The acquisition comes into effect at the beginning of May. "This latest development means we can ...

Stakes rising fast at anti-adviser Parlie inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... planning associates who only recommend industry funds." Attracting the most attention in the submissions is the role of advisers and requests for the Inquiry's committee to initiate better rules separating sales representatives from pure advisers. A ...

Asteron adds to sales team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... layer of practice development to the existing team and enhance the firm's product and marketing services to financial advisers. "Barry will be an active business development manager, managing a panel of South Australian and Northern Territory advisers ...

AXA upgrades insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... aimed at regaining a leading position in the financial protection market. Today's initiatives incorporate feedback from advisers which makes our proposition even more attractive," he said.