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Financial planning

04 Dec

Let the good times roll

Does a three-month pick-up in the employment market signal a resurgence in employment opportunities in the financial services sector through 2004?...

Financial planning

04 Dec

Relationship building skills now top of mind

The Financial Services Reform regime is creating demand for planners with a different skill set. Mike Taylor and Lucie Beaman report....

Life/Risk

03 Dec

Political wrangle over insurance continues

The Federal Government is accusing both the Federal Opposition Australian Labor Party and the Australian Democrats of creating greater uncertainty in the insurance market...

Financial planning

01 Dec

Another Wattle director convicted

A former director of a company associated with the failed Wattle Group was last week convicted in the Brisbane District Court on 12 charges of being knowingly concerned i...

Financial planning

28 Nov

Super licensing regulations set for release

The Federal Government is undertaking to release within two weeks the draft regulations and operating standards which will apply to the licensing of superannuation truste...

Financial planning

28 Nov

InTech signs Mercer exec as director

Asset consultants Intech Financial Services have announced the appointment of former Mercer Asia Pacific chairman and chief executive Bruce Cook as a director....

Life/Risk

27 Nov

Insurance Council seeks party support over PI

The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has urged the Opposition and minor parties in the Senate to support passage of the Trade Practices (Personal Injury and Death) Bi...

Funds management

26 Nov

Wealth management shines for Tower

Nine months into a two-year recovery strategy, Tower Limited is back in the black having posted a $4.87 million profit for the six months ended September, 2003....

Financial planning

25 Nov

Labor warns shareholders to be ‘alert and alarmed’

The Australian Labor Party has signalled it will be moving amendments to the Corporations Act specifically aimed at ensuring publicly-listed companies cannot use sharehol...

Financial planning

24 Nov

BT to stick with Putnam

BT Financial Group has signalled it will maintain its relationship with funds management partner, Putnam Investments, despite daily monitoring of the US-based manager in ...