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New COO part of expansion plans at Fidelity Australia

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... develop the business over coming years." To ensure that its strategy, client services and operations divisions get more focus, they will report directly to Wang, Fidelity said.

VicSuper and Aust Ethical adopt after-tax benchmark

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... Ethical Superannuation will greatly assist the ability to measure the success of their investment strategy which has a strong focus on maximising the after-tax returns for members. Meantime, Julie Andrews, director of FTSE Group, Australia expects a ...

Another former asset consultant joins Cbus

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
Construction industry superannuation fund Cbus has hired a former asset consultant who had previously worked with the fund, in an expansion of its internal investment team. Cbus today said that Brett Chatfield would start from 4 February as an investment ...

Advisers must ask clients about SRI investing: Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
If the government is serious about wanting to make a positive difference on issues such as the environment, sustainability and ethical corporate governance then it must obligate financial planners to ask their clients about socially responsible investing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
The Australian market looks set to open flat after positive showings on US and European bourses following upbeat German economic data. At 0633 AEDT on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 4,747. In economic news ...

New RI boss announced

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
ANZ has unveiled Former BT Financial Group executive Darren Whereat as the new boss of RI Advice Group, which it owns through its wealth management arm OnePath. Whereat replaces Paul Campbell as the chief executive of the dealer group, who said in early ...

MLC dealer group the best: CoreData

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
A financial planning dealer group in National Australia Bank's network has won an award for being the best in Australia for the third time in five years. After completing a shadow-shopping exercise, research group CoreData said that MLC-aligned Apogee ...

Would-be clients snub advice

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... attributed the fall in 'intention', which recovered in 2010 and 2011, to ongoing economic and financial uncertainty as the focus shifted to the value planners add within the underlying advice provided. "The findings suggest it is really important that ...

New head of Insto sales at La Trobe

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... Humphris will be tasked with growing La Trobe Financial's institutional business regionally and offshore, with a specific focus on consultants and securing institutional mandates.

Mobile payment market primed for innovation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
The rapid worldwide adoption of smart phones and other mobile devices is expected to boost growth and innovation in the mobile payments industry, according to Credit Suisse. Recent forecasts by IT research company Gartner that anticipate the value of ...