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IOOF behind HUB24 buyout offer

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
IOOF Holdings is back in the acquisition game and has made a proposal to acquire all of the shares of HUB24. Both companies confirmed the move in statements to the Australian Securities Exchange and HUB24 placed its shares in a trading halt on Tuesday ...

Vision Super intra-fund advice soars

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Vision Super has recorded a massive increase in financial advice given to its members over 2015. Over the past year, Vision Super's financial advice team has had 2,422 meetings with members - a 70% boost from the 1,431 meetings in 2014. General advice ...

Equipsuper invests in fintech, robo-advice firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Equipsuper has invested in a fintech startup that will develop the fund's digital advice and investment platform. Clover is a Melbourne-based financial technology company that offers an automated investment service. The platform adopts a goals-based ...

SMSFs impacted by power of attorney rule changes

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Changes to the rules governing power of attorney in Victoria, which came into force on 1 September, will impact the way SMSF advisers service their clients. The new Powers of Attorney Act 2014 consolidates the enduring power of attorney and enduring ...

AMP offers Adviser Academy course via Griffith

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
AMP has redesigned its Horizons adviser education program and is now offering its Adviser Academy course through Griffith University. Changes in the redesign of the course include: raising entry standards to a degree equivalent, provisioning for graduates ...

ASIC seeks to wind up $18m manager

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
ASIC is seeking court orders to wind up an asset manager with approximately $18.5 million in funds under management. Avestra Asset Management - which ASIC's statement said is a "responsible entity or trustee of a number of managed investment schemes" ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
After finishing school in 1979 and before I started university I worked for three months as a kitchen hand in the New Zealand tourist resort of Milford Sound. On my half days off each week I would sometimes join one of the launch cruises that would ...

Mercer handed fine for unlicensed advice in Singapore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has fined Mercer Singapore S$15,000 ($15,100) for contraventions of the Financial Advisers Act. On 18 August, Mercer Singapore accepted composition amounts of $10,000 for contravention of section 23B(3) of the FAA ...

UK adds SMSF after slashing Australian pension schemes

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has added an Australian pension scheme to its qualified recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) list after slashing the number of Aussie funds from 1,600 to one on July 1. From early September, the P Wyns ...

The $17trn infra opportunity investors have overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Super funds that want to increase their allocation to infrastructure assets without compromising their environmental, social and governance criteria should consider an investment in water equities. That's the opinion of Kleinwort Benson Investors, a ...