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Financial planning

12 Jan

Efforts to rescue Equitable Life, which closed its doors to new investors last month, are now seen as crucial to save the world’s oldest mutual....

Financial planning

14 Dec

Perserverance pays off for Financial Planner of the Year

Dominic Alafaci has won the 2000 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year award after coming runner up for two years in succession. John Wilkinson asks Alafaci the ...

Financial planning

14 Dec

Australian Unity shifts its gaze towards property

With the acquisition of York Capital under its belt, Australian Unity is restructuring the way it plays the property investment market. John Wilkinson looks at where that...

Financial planning

14 Dec

Dire warning for complacent planners

Financial planners who are not giving their clients choice and integrated service will fail, says National’s head of global financial services, Peter Flavel....

Financial planning

14 Dec

AXA on the hunt for dealer groups

AXA is on the prowl for dealer groups to boost its distribution network, group chief executive Les Owen has confirmed....

Financial planning

14 Dec

Beware of the death benefit

Planners need to inform their clients of the new superannuation death benefit rules or they could be sued if there is a dispute with the next of kin, a superannuation adm...

Financial planning

14 Dec

Lazard flags European markets as growth area

The Euro has been the catalyst of change for Europe and that is why Lazard Asset Management is backing the region as the next investment growth area, Lazard managing dire...

Financial planning

11 Dec

Equitable closes doors to new money

The world’s oldest mutual life company, Equitable Life, has closed its doors to new investors. ...

Financial planning

07 Dec

Faster than a speeding train: the emerging technology

In the space of six months, a number of Australia’s paper millionaires have been reduced to paper paupers as a result of the collapse in Internet-driven technology stocks...