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New SFG service launched to reposition boutiques

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
SFG Australia (SFGA) has launched a business-to-business offering to assist boutique Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) holders with back-end support. The offering from the SFGA-owned Actuate Alliance Services will provide licensee and advice ...

Finance industry integrity called into question

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
Financial services stakeholders have little confidence in the industry's integrity and its capacity to manage conflicts of interest, with almost a third saying that the different sectors don't operate with integrity. Financial advisers are seen to be ...

Aussies mainly concerned about super and retiring

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
... the highest number of questions and engagement online. Young people planning for their first home or kicking off a savings plan also decided to contact a financial adviser during the Financial Planning Week. The FPA 'Ask an Expert' website, where Australians ...

Accounting and advice practices likely to increase mergers

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
Recent regulatory changes that allow accountants to provide financial advice under a limited licence are likely to increase the appetite for mergers and acquisitions between accounting and advice practices. "The accounting industry's foray into the ...

Bombora signs first partner, signals more expansion

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
Independent licensee Bombora Advice has signed on risk protection specialist Complete Risk Analysis (CRA) as its first partner, with more firms expected to jump on board over the coming months. Bombora managing director Wayne Handley said that the addition ...

EM correction, it's different this time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
Despite the recent shake out in emerging markets due to the rebounding USD, the stronger ones are positioned fundamentally differently to how they were in 1997 and should absorb this latest correction. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeatedly ...

Elders to axe 10% of workforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... Insurance. Elders Limited managing director Malcolm Jackman said that "the pillars of the overall business restructuring plan have provided Elders a sound an sustainable footing with a clear focus for the future." The group's financial advice business ...

Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
The recent scrutiny that self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have found themselves under from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) could be a taste of things to come, according to lawyer Claire Wivell Plater, managing director of ...

Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... investors favoured equities, fixed income has also begun to see an uptick in popularity, with 7% of investors saying they plan on using the global asset class, up from 4% last month. Investment grade credit is the most popular category of global fixed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... strength by a Russian proposal to put Syrian chemical weapons under international control. The US reacted cautiously to the plan, which comes as President Barack Obama faces a sceptical reception in Congress to plans to launch a military strike on Syria. ...