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Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Financial markets didn't get the kitchen sink they were hoping for but the fridge - along with the promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and ...

AFA Adviser of Year and Practice of Year semi-finalists announced

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) have announced the semi-finalists in the 2014 AFA Adviser of the Year and Practice of the Year Awards. The Adviser of the Year honour was first awarded in 2003 ...

Netwealth overhauls adviser technology

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
Financial planning group netwealth Advice has completed the stage one build of its overhaul of its technology program. Over the last nine months the group has been improving its Model Office program through its Pathway Licensee Services business. According ...

Mortgage Choice booms, invests in planners

AAP AND ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
A strong housing market has helped home lender Mortgage Choice deliver its best financial results ever with a record number of loan settlements. The lender's net profit rose 5.8% to $19.8 million in the year to June 30, up from $18.7 million in the ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Here we go again; a parliamentarian proposes a policy response to housing affordability involving superannuation and trade-side interest groups circle the wagons, warning of capital market calamity. Triggering this latest ruckus is that at end July ...

Lump sum rules 'utterly unsustainable': Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
Former minister for superannuation Nick Sherry has branded as "utterly unsustainable" the rule allowing Australian retirees to withdraw their superannuation as a lump sum. Speaking in the opening session of the Financial Services Council conference ...

Fortnum ready to recruit advisers after ANZ stake buyout

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
Fortnum Financial Group has bought the 20% stake that ANZ had in the dealer group and is now looking to grow by recruiting new practices. Following the buyout of the ANZ stake, Fortnum is among Australia's largest independent advice businesses. The ...

Better use of client information essential to adviser success

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
Financial advisers have more information about their clients than almost any other industry and they should be using it to improve their service, netwealth executive director Matt Heine said. "Throughout the fact finding process we collect more information ...

Premium hires former IOOF exec for compliance role

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
Premium Wealth Management has hired former IOOF audit manager to head up its compliance division. Johan Cruz managed the audit for a number of businesses, including the Lonsdale dealer group while at IOOF.A He also spent two years at Count Financial ...

Regulators relaxed about social media: IOSCO

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
The International Organsation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has just released research into how regulators around the world are permitting the use of social media as part of the advice channel. The survey was conducted during 2013 and focused heavily ...