Carmen Watts

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Long-serving Promina Group chief financial officer Harold Bentley is to retire, and will be replaced by the chief executive of Promina’s subsidiary, Vero Australia, Dunca...

The superannuation industry is embracing financial planning as an integral offering for members, but has strongly rejected a commission-based fee model....

Key elements of the financial services industry, including IFSA, have been negotiating with the Australian Consumers’ Association in a bid to develop a mutually acceptabl...

Challenger Financial Services has extended the range of managers within its Custom Choice Boutique Australian Share Portfolio....

How to value a financial planning practice? Read this article to get better insight into the financial planning business valuation process in Australia....

In the financial planning industry, the road to setting up your own practice is full of pot holes. BEN ABBOTT asked John Kiley how he survived his first year....

So you have a million dollars to invest. Let’s start by making some general assumptions; you own the property you live in, have no outstanding debts, you’re under 50-year...

Peter Kell is the face of the wave of consumerism that has washed over the financial planning industry...

What do you get when you cross the founder of the Asia-Pacific branch of one of the most successful fund managers in the Australian wholesale investment industry, a profe...

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