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Advance AM head of strategy steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... Children with Disabilities, the charity he runs with his wife. "I was raised on a tea plantation, and I often visit my Mum and Dad who are buried in the churchyard near there," he said. "During one of those visits I went to my old college, and I saw ...

Embrace client interests or wither on the vine, advisers told

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... was the best course of action for maintaining the long-term health of the industry. "I want my kids to be proud to say their dad is a financial planner like they would a doctor or any other profession. Unfortunately I don't think you can say today that ...

Advisers ask for segmented education standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
Financial advisers have asked that the minimum education standards are not set up following a 'one size fits all' approach, but instead take into account individual advisers' areas of focus. As part of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Female ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

PROFILE: Head of Australian operations at Western Asset Management Anthony Kirkham

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... school was pretty unusual," he says. "I remember doing the presentation and putting a share certificate on it. In fact my dad thinks that I lost one of his share certificates. But it was really my father who introduced me to shares at a very young age. ...

Government still mulling response on Senate report

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Abbott said he won't be rushed into a further inquiry. Instead, he wants to first consider the report on the issue. Mum and dad investors needed to be protected, Abbott said on Thursday, but there also needed to be maintenance of a market where inevitably ...

Advice clients don't want managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
AFA Adviser of the Year Jenny Brown has said that clients are simply not interested in investing in managed funds. "Clients don't want managed funds. I'm sorry to all the fund managers in the room but they just don't understand them," she said. Brown ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... side. While superannuation funds have started to widen their nets to include sizable allocations to global equities, mum and dad investors have retained their home bias. Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investment habits are a good indication ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
Nah, I'm not falling for that one again. No mas Virginia! Equity markets closed (to borrow Coles new ad) "down, down, deeper and down" overnight. The headlines have easily pinpointed the cause... "U.S. Stocks Retreat, Treasuries Rally on Ukraine, China" ...

PROFILE: Centric Wealth CEO Phil Kearns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... left school, I was going to give the game away," he says. "My mother wanted me to focus on my studies. But a mate of mine's dad - who actually was an ex-Wallaby and a teacher at Newington - dragged me down to the Randwick Club and said 'You're going ...