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Anne Street SMSF advice falls under ASIC radar

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Anne Street Partners Financial Services' advice to self-managed super fund (SMSF) clients has raised concerns from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The practice has agreed to engage an independent expert who will review ...

Perpetual equities deputy head to step down

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Perpetual deputy head of equities and co-manager of the Industrial Share Fund, Charlie Lanchester, has decided to leave the institutional funds management industry after 14 years with the company. Paul Skamvougeras has been appointed deputy head of ...

FoFA changes, an improvement to advice businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Features such as the fee for service provision in the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation are an improvement to financial planning businesses and are attractive to customers, some advisers are saying. "I am transitioning to a fee for service ...

Wickham Securities chairman banned for two years

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
The chairman of the collapsed lender Wickham Securities has been banned from financial services for two years and seven months. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has banned Bradley Thomas Sherwin after he declared himself bankrupt. ...

Netwealth nabs AMP exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Netwealth has appointed John Boston to the role of national advice manager of the Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA), part of the netwealth Advice Group. In addition to his role at FPSA, Boston will hold an executive role at netwealth Advice ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... Representatives speaker John Boehner and majority leader Eric Cantor had signalled their support for President Barack Obama's plan to attack Syria was weighing on market sentiment "That's the main reason our market is lower today," he said. Mr Weston ...

WealthSure undertakes major reform of the business

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
WealthSure is undertaking a full reform of its business after it entered into an enforceable undertaking following concerns by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) over poor compliance and failure to monitor advisers' actions. ...

Super fund sells hospital to government

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
MTAA Super has sold its stake in Mildura Base Hospital (MBH) to the Victorian Government after 13 years of investment in the project. Since 2000, MDH has been under a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement, comprising the Victorian Government ...

Financial services to make 100,000 millionaires by 2017

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
A booming financial services industry will account for an explosion in the number of millionaires over the next four years, according to a report by WealthInsight. By 2017, the research and data provider said there will be an estimated 402,000 millionaires ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... the (political) race that stopped the nation would be soon over this September (on the 7th).A Businesses would be able to plan their businesses with greater certainty and consumers... their consumption (provided of course, we don't get another minority ...