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Poor performance of group products is continuing to impact life insurers’ profits, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s Quarterly Report reveals....

NAB’s third quarter update points to healthier wealth management result but challenges in its UK operations....

Accommodative monetary policy in the US is set to continue, which should see the equity market climb higher, Mark Thomas writes. ...

Wide variations in the number of financial planners reported to be operating in the industry has been a feature of the sector for some years but, as Jason Spits writes, a...

In the wake of recent industry-wide change financial planning numbers appear to have moved little, according to data collected for the Money Management Top 100 Dealer Gro...

The underlying factors that influence investment decisions may have more to do with DNA and culture than previously thought, Grace Yulu writes. ...

Mike Taylor writes that Financial Services Council chief executive, John Brogden used his last annual conference address to point to how little the big issues have change...

The financial services regulators have sent a clear message to the life/risk industry about its past mistakes. ...

Suncorp reports solid full-year but revises appraoch on life in face of structural challenges....

The Commonwealth Bank has delivered a solid full-year result with its financial planning troubles making little impact in terms of comments or provisioning....

Amid a good deal of fuss over how one insurance industry analyst referenced those making claims, Mike Taylor writes that the industry would be better looking at cause rat...

Given a decade of generally bad publicity for the financial planning sector, it is a wonder that planner numbers have not seriously declined....

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