FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Kerry Packer-backed Challenger Financial Services’ purchase last year of Associated Planners is paying surprise dividends, with Genesys Wealth Advisers pushing well into ...

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Fund incubator and private client services company Equity Trustees put their highly publicised woes of 2003 further behind them yesterday by announcing a net annual profi...

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Traditional methods of portfolio construction should be abandoned, as they cannot cater for some asset classes such as options, have difficulty accounting for global equi...

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Industry Fund Services has said it will refer to ASIC an analysis by Chant West Financial Services questioning the validity of claims made by industry funds in an adverti...

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Sydney planning firm Money Solutions has entered into a partnership with REST to provide financial advice to its 1.5 million members....

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A troupe of public sector and industry superannuation funds have demanded Australia’s biggest companies more clearly disclose how they make sure their directors do not fu...

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China and Taiwan will be the big growth centres for mutual funds over the next five years according to Boston-based research house, Cerulli Associates....

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The Federal Opposition has criticised the corporate regulator for not going far enough in what is already being perceived by the industry as too harsh an assessment of fi...

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The financial services industry has an important role to play in strengthening Australia’s national security, according to Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty....

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A financial adviser was banned, another had his operation shut down, and a superannuation scheme promoter jailed for 18 months as a result of three separate actions initi...

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A little known financial services group has started a petition calling for fund managers to be hit with cash penalties for failing to release clients’ superannuation with...

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Coin Software has put the official seal on the long anticipated deal to roll out its desktop financial planning tools to the Commonwealth Bank’s 3,000 plus adviser networ...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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The Federal Court has made interim travel restraint orders against two Falcon Capital directors, while also freezing one director’s assets....

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