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Adviser portfolios add commodities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Commodities is the new asset class in the Securitor Select Blend Portfolios. Pat Farrell, head of BT Investment Solutions and a speaker at last week's Securitor conference in Darwin, said commodities were included as an asset class of its own in the ...

Best of the best at Securitor

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
From rising stars to the top performing financial planning practices, Securitor has picked the cream of the crop for this year's awards ceremony held at the Securitor conference in Darwin. The Securitor practice of the year award was handed out to Primewealth ...

Excess choice boosts advice

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... the need for more good advisers. Barry Wyatt, national manager business development, AXA Australia, and speaker at the Securitor conference in Darwin, said giving too much choice to investors can drive them to do nothing about their investments. Picking ...

Clients listen, but switch anyway

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... advisers, but 40 per cent are willing to make investment switches without consulting their planner, according to a new Securitor survey. Geoff Lloyd, general manager, advice and private banking BT Financial Group, said 78 per cent of Securitor advisers ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... included provision for SG to begin rising to 12 per cent as soon as the economy recovered. But Keating told the annual Securitor adviser conference that such ideas were "just foolhardy" because it would undo one of few global comparative advantages Australia ...

Ignore history at your peril

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... global expert. Alan McFarlane, chief executive of Edinburgh-based Walter Scott & Partners and a speaker at yesterday's Securitor conference in Darwin, says advisers are generally not well versed in financial history, which will be a detriment to their ...

Planners gain clean tech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... Research poll found more than 40 per cent of respondents are in favour of nuclear power and only one third opposed it. The Securitor financial planning network has over 400 financial advisers and more than $12 billion in funds under advice, according ...

Securitor combats bad times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
One of Australia's top ten largest dealer groups, Securitor, is arming itself against poor markets by giving advisers more resources to serve their clients. Securitor, which has around $12 billion in advice and 462 advisers, is not just hammering home ...

New leaders at BT and Asgard

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... superannuation and investment solutions Neil Younger will head the dealer groups and licensee select, including Magnitude and Securitor. Phil Hay has been appointed head of life insurance, Brendan Tobin, head of general insurance, Charles Holland, head ...

Coombe names wealth management execs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
... confirm their teams in a couple of weeks. The combined business will continue to use the Asgard, Advance, BT, Magnitude, Securitor, St.George and Westpac brands. Coombe said the combined business represents $95 billion in total investments, 14 per cent ...