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Mariner has become the latest group to push into the burgeoning reverse mortgage market, announcing today it would offer retirees the opportunity to borrow up to $1 milli...

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Platforms have proliferated and grown to colossal sizes, evolving over time to occupy a space in the financial services landscape in which they have few competitors....

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Global fund managers WestAM and Mellon Financial have announced plans to merge some of their operations into a 50:50 joint venture, in a move that will give Mellon a much...

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Accountancy giant Deloitte has released a web-based anti-money laundering tool, which it says will only cost financial planners the price of a hamburger....

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Financial planners are losing a significant portion of their business to technology as the use of online stock brokers skyrockets....

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A growing interest in alternative investments and structured products by financial planners has led Aegis Equities Research to expand its specialist team....

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Having already bought a couple of Australian radio stations, Macquarie Bank has more media assets in its sights, announcing today that it intends to list a new fund on th...

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Financial planning groups have been given the chance to break down any barriers preventing them from pushing into the American financial services market as part of negoti...

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Despite heavy criticism of advisers over conflicts of interest, the vast majority do not believe the financial planning industry should abandon commission-based remunerat...

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Former Sydney City Councillor Kathryn Greiner will step down as chair of the FPA after one year at the top of the industry body....

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The advantages Scamseek adds to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) efforts to track web scams and illegal financial schemes are best illustrated...

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An example SOA has now been published by ASIC, intended to provide guidance to planners on the giving of documented financial advice. So is the regulator up to scratch wh...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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