FINANCIAL PLANNING

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The UK's financial services regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is considering giving what would essentially be a 'tick of approval' to certain advisers as...

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MLC's financial planning businesses have completed a transition to a fee-for-service remuneration structure for all new investment and superannuation clients, a process t...

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Retirees have been given a 50 per cent reduction in the minimum drawdown amounts for account-based, allocated and market-linked pensions for the 2010-11 financial year, w...

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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld ASIC's decision to ban Queensland broker Clive Henley from providing financial services for three years....

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BOQ completes the purchase of specialist equipment finance company CIT....

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Standard & Poor's has placed the RARE Infrastructure Value Fund and the RARE Series Emerging Markets Fund 'on hold' following the resignation of three analysts....

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A number of the weaknesses in smaller financial planning firms are rooted in a lack of understanding of their target client base, according to practice management consult...

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ASIC warns that it is already monitoring end of year trades in real-time and will be vigilant with respect to price manipulation aimed at generating performance fees....

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Van Eyk Research chief executive Mark Thomas believes the low-cost, low-risk and limited advice model some investors are now embracing is a 'pup' model that will ultimate...

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Two major superannuation bodies have called for the Government to maintain its commitment to gradually raise the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent....

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Tower Australia Group has raised about $96 million, despite the prevailing analyst sentiment that it was not a good time to engage in a capital raising....

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APRA has recommended superannuation trustees adopt a suitable classification process to ensure members can distinguish between the characteristics of each investment stra...

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