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Growing numbers of planners hold a Post Graduate or Masters qualification, but those working in the superannuation sector are more likely not to have darkened the door of...

Financial planners working for retail banks are the most likely to believe their employer does not value the work they do, the Money Management Salary Survey reveals....

Catherine Chivers runs through the ATO's new guidelines which seek to clarify safe harbour terms for an SMSF when they structure their LRBAs to comply with arm's length d...

Outsider noted ISA’s David Whiteley’s farewell to National Seniors chief executive, Michael O’Neill with some interest as they were comrades during the FOFA campaign....

Outsider is old enough to remember the last time there was a correction in the residential property market and views the spike in Sydney real estate with a jaundiced eye....

The CFP designation remains a potent marketing tool for the Financial Planning Association but will the Government's legislative amendments around ethics and education ma...

Accountants continue to drag their feet with respect to the new limited licensing regime but, as Mike Taylor reports, they risk provoking a regulatory shadow shop. ...

The life/risk sector still offers growth potential to the major insurers but, as Mike Taylor reports, new regulatory and capital requirements have made for a more challen...

From a financial planning perspective, it is arguable that no sector has generated more change over the past three years than the life/risk sector. ...

It has been a little over a year since Jim Minto retired as chief executive of big insurer TAL. It is 12 months during which he has taken the time to reflect on the shape...

With the overall emerging market sector not producing great returns relying on geographies is insufficient when trying to paint a proper picture, Jassmyn Goh finds. ...

As finding attractive sources of income is proving to be more and more difficult in the current low cash yield environment, Jon Howie looks at why a multi-asset approach ...

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