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David Rae wins Count Adviser of the Year award

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Beames and Associates Financial Services director David Rae was the winner of Count Financial's first Adviser of the Year award. The award recognises advice excellence, good client outcomes and a commitment to best practice and professional development. ...

CBA wants Senate to fix corporate super advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has expressed concern that the ban on conflicted remuneration will affect corporate superannuation advisers and has asked the Senate inquiry into the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) to find a way to solve the issue. The bank ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in the southeastern city of Mariupol, two days before separatists plan to go ahead with a referendum. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi strongly suggested the bank could ease monetary ...

Prime Super will not appoint HIP directors to board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) said that research houses' conflicts of interest when rating products are one of the reasons behind the failure of some funds. In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) ...

Westpac weighs in on FoFA debate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
Westpac said that the government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation are "necessary" to ensure consumer protection. Westpac is the first of the Big Four to have its say on the FoFA changes, which are A currently being ...

Equip to launch pension version of MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
Superannuation fund Equip will launch a retirement phase version of MySuper, called 'Equip MyPension', on 1 July this year, chief executive Danielle Press has revealed. The product is designed to be a default pension fund for members in the MySuper ...

Insurers upping risk to combat low yields

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... less liquid assets including infrastructure debt, private equity, commercial mortgage loans, and real estate equity. As CIOs plan to allocate more to non-core asset classes, the survey indicates that CFOs are demonstrating significantly greater comfort ...

Janet puts it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... program." But it's not on a pre-set course. "If something were to change noticeably about the outlook, we would reconsider that plan." Yeah, yeah, we heard all these before and financial markets have already priced these in. The more pertinent question ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street mostly gained following more conciliatory statements by Russia's president amid the Ukraine crisis and the Federal Reserve chair's Congressional testimony. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the ...