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SMSFs exposed in related party transactions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... property valuation. Townsends Business and Corporate Lawyers provide specialist SMSF services for accountants and financial planners and work in conjunction with SUPERCentral.

ANZ planners receive funding facility

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
ANZ financial planners will have the option to use a new funding facility from ANZ to expand their businesses or refinance their existing practices, as part of the group's broader recruitment and succession strategy. Just launched, the ANZ Practice ...

Bond broker targets WA planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities has opened an office in Perth to provide bond investment services to financial planners in Western Australia. FIIG, which has over $6 billion in term deposits under advice, will give WA planners access to short term ...

Government bowing to pressure on super risk commissions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... government backbenchers Bernie Ripoll and Deb O'Neill had been very influential in the change of thinking. "The Financial Planners Association have been putting up a good lobbying campaign, perhaps in contrast to one other financial planning group and ...

Star hire strengthens IOOF adviser drive

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... ahead. DKN shareholders are to vote on the 80c-per-share offer in September. IOOF also has 1500 non-aligned financial planners who use the firm's services. "We are looking to expand that dramatically over the next few years," he said. With financial ...

ASIC looks to reshape retail advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... will apply to all Australian Financial Service licensees including accountants, superannuation trustees and financial planners. ASIC said it found one-third of Australians now prefer scalable advice and as such the regulator has released a consultation ...

Super Choice did not change super habits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... Management in Australia report for July 2011 found that while those who buy managed funds excluding super rely on financial planners, most consumers obtain their superannuation fund through their employer. Of those superannuation account holders that ...

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... four months before today's launch, Tanner said. The chief executive said Bank of Melbourne has 10 in-house financial planners but plans to grow this to 50. Traditional political party foes buried the hatchet for the launch with Labor's Federal Minister ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... administration provider Multiport has launched a new package to help SMSF trustees gear property into SMSFs and invited financial planners to a roundtable discussion debating the merits of property in super. At the luncheon in Sydney on Wednesday, Craig ...

Older people seek more financial advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... in Australia report, released last week by Roy Morgan Research, also surveyed respondents about their use of financial planners. The results were striking. Of those aged 65 and over with superannuation, 72.7% had consulted a financial adviser. More than ...