FINANCIAL PLANNING

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The accounting profession has made a last-ditch effort for the right to provide at least a small measure of advice under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has made two separate moves to assist advisers struggling under the burden of the professional indemnity (PI) crisis by temporari...

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The ANZ Banking Group will roll out its own version of ING’s OneAnswer to its 320 bank based financial advisers....

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Perpetual Personal Financial Services, the wealth management division of Perpetual Trustees, has retrenched 51 staff including a small number of advisers in what it says ...

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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is aiming to increase its financial planner numbers by 200 over the next 18 months and reduce the number of products offered by t...

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The distributional strength of independent financial advisers (IFAs) in the UK is under threat by depolorisation legislation, which will see banks and large financial ins...

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Financial planners should have to earn the right to the exclusive use of the term ‘financial planner’ according to shadow finance minister Senator Stephen Conroy....

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Westpac and BT have appointed Scott Walters in the newly redefined role of head of financial planning, replacing Brett Himbury who left Westpac last month....

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Madison Financial Group might be small, but it knows where it’s headed. Kate Kachor reports....

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The Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group’s (BFPPG) Bruce Baker says it is too soon to know the effects of the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA)/Australian S...

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How do you protect your clients from the risk of outliving their money? John Prowse reports....

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Financial planners are earning even bigger salaries, but is the bubble about to burst? Lisa Bowman reports....

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