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Advice main concern in FOS investment disputes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Financial advice keeps being the main concern for consumers who lodge investment-related claims to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The FOS 2012-13 annual review found an 11% reduction of all disputes. In total, the FOS received 32,307 disputes ...

Advisers, get ready to manage the baby boomer wave

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Advisers' next great challenge will be managing the volume and the expectations of baby boomers coming into retirement, KPMG partner and demographer Bernard Salt said. Speaking at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Conference, Salt said that the ...

Brumby lauds Cbus board pay disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... amount retirees are currently retiring on is "no way near enough," adding that rising longevity means retirees will have to plan for living into their nineties. He said the guaranteed contribution rate would have to rise to 15%.

AIST slams independent director quota

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... Tom Garcia, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), has hit out at the Government's plan to set a quota of independent members on industry super fund boards, calling it a 'number one issue' for AIST. Speaking at ...

AustralianSuper takes $1bn from IFM, gives it to in-house team

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
AustralianSuper has taken $1bn off IFM Investors and has given the mandate to its in-house team to test its efficiency. "We will see how they go," AustralianSuper chief investment officer Mark Delaney told Financial Standard. "We want to see how they ...

SMILEYS 2014 deadline looms

STAFF WRITERS  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
Financial advisers have less than a week to get their entries in for this year's Financial Standard Social Media Influence Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (SMILEYS). Proudly supported by our scholarship partner Zurich and our technology partner ...

AusSuper's in-house plan to save $150m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
AustralianSuper has completed the first phase of its five-year plan to bring 30% of its investment management operations in house, including the addition of 23 new staff members. The industry fund said the first phase saw the "implementation of the ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
In the latest edition of Financial Standard we ask a selection of major financial planning groups what they are doing to stay ahead of the curve, what Cbus' referral deal with the FPA means, review how the AFA conference went, assess Senator Sinodinos' ...

Cbus, FPA explain their referral deal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) and Cbus explain how their pilot professional advice referral service will work. First of all, it will run from January to June 2014 and be available to Cbus members in Queensland, South Australia ...

Magellan insists huge growth won't hamper returns

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Magellan Financial Group insists its investment process remains scalable in spite of an $11 billion rise in assets under management and a three and half fold increase in underlying profit in the last 12 months. At the company's recent annual general ...