FPA to meet needs of boutique planners
20 May 2003
The FPA has also appointed two new staff to look after the needs of its small boutique dealer members, who make up 75% of its membership…
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ASIC: planners will struggle with basics
13 May 2003
After a spate of bad press following their disastrous showing in two recent surveys, financial planners have copped it again, with a senior ASIC officer saying most of them…
Planners promise to lift their game
06 May 2003
The Financial Planning Association has launched an “ambitious” national campaign to raise the bar on Australian planners’ professional standards after the recent disastrous survey…
John Pearce joins IFSA Board
06 May 2003
Colonial First State CEO John Pearce has joined the IFSA board of directors…
Elderly law gets a makeover
29 April 2003
New Zealand’s 95-year-old Life Insurance Act is finally destined for a makeover…
Financial planner campaign ‘just coincidence’
29 April 2003
St George Bank’s new national television advertising campaign showing a financial planner talking about his “personal” relationship with an elderly client and her family…
IFSA gets into Q&As
23 April 2003
The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a Q&A fact sheet for its members in a bid to create better understanding of the changing face…
Super fees static
23 April 2003
IFSA has released its annual superannuation fees analysis for 2002…
Financial planners dragging their heels
15 April 2003
While the disastrous findings of ASIC’s and ACA’s recent financial planners survey is still bright in everyone’s memories, Ernst & Young has released…
Super trends: increase in super assets
15 April 2003
APRA’s latest edition of Super Trends shows a 2.4% increase in superannuation assets for the final quarter of 2002…
Australian staff are the greatest, says Axiss
08 April 2003
Axiss Australia says Australia’s financial services sector is an attractive and successful industry that gives the country a powerful advantage in the Asia-Pacific region…
Companies ‘ill-prepared’ for global reporting system
08 April 2003
More than 90% of Australian financial institutions taking part in a survey say they approve of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards…
Financial services priming the national pump
08 April 2003
The financial services sector will grow by 8% a year until 2012, according to market researcher Dexx&R…
IFSA lashes out at ALP’s governance policy
01 April 2003
The Investment and Financial Services Association has come out fighting against the Federal Opposition’s policy that would require fund managers and super trustees to disclose…
Life insurers in for a tough year
01 April 2003
The outlook for the life insurance industry in Australia and NZ is “volatile”, according to ratings agency Standard & Poor’s…
Pension funds under weather
01 April 2003
Up to 30% of defined-benefit super funds are concerned they won’t be able to stay in business because of increasingly poor investment markets cutting into their solvency…
ATO warns on foreign life insurance plan
01 April 2003
The tax office has warned investors to be wary of tax schemes involving life insurance companies based in foreign tax havens…
Super choice bill on hold
25 March 2003
The Australian superannuation industry is making some noise again over the Government’s pending “choice bill” which will allow people to switch between super funds more easily…
Financial planners bite back
18 March 2003
The Financial Planning Association has gone into damage control mode after ASIC and the Australian Consumers Association released their less-than-kind results…
Life insurers join forces with mental health forces
18 March 2003
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Investment & Financial Services Association and a group called the Mental Health Sector Stakeholders…