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Women don't trust financial advisers: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
Women have little trust in financial advisers and have raised concerns about "product pushing," preliminary results of research about how women manage money have revealed In the first stage of the research, professor Roslyn Russell from RMIT University ...

EBX launches online tool to purchase endowment bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... matures in 15, so by the time they retire they know they will have that much money that year." The tool allows investors to plan ahead their retirement with flexibility and on a yearly basis, adapting the investment to the circumstances. "It is a real ...

Plans to close large UK defined benefit angers members

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
UK financial services group Axa has announced plans to close its final salary pension to existing members. The company told staff it planned to move 2,300 employees currently in the scheme to a defined contribution pension, where payments are not guaranteed ...

Image of financial advisers still low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
Financial planners are respected by almost twice as many people as union leaders, but they lag nurses, doctors, pharmacists and school teachers by more than three to one. Roy Morgan has just released its latest consumer survey rating the annual image ...

PIF Action Group questions ASIC decision on Wellington

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) decision to drop the investigation into the Wellington Premium Income Fund (PIF) has angered the PIF Action Group. PIF Action Group president Peter Grenadier told Financial Standard that in ...

Nominations open for AFA Excellence in Education award

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has opened the nominations for the sixth AFA Excellence in Education Award, which recognises advisers committed to lifelong learning. Nominations close on May 24 with the first round of interviews being held ...

Russell focus on IM is better for clients: Schoenheimer

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... high profile contracts in recent weeks. Last month Financial Standard reported that the $6 billion Qantas Superannuation Plan had dropped Russell as its administration provider in favour of rival firm Mercer. However, Schoenheimer said this move simply ...

New FPA member base shows changing face of industry

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
An influx of Generation Y highlights the transformation of the public face of the financial planning industry, according to the Financial Planning Association (FPA). Figures released by the industry body shows that of more than 1,000 new members who ...

Regulation blamed for perceived fall in advisers' ability

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013

ASFA warns govt against Super raid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has warned the government that any plans to raid superannuation would have a grave effect on public confidence. The comments come in light of speculation that the government may be planning ...