FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

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The changes to the business tax system introduced last year has resulted in hundreds of planners being hit by rules designed to cut down on the alienation of personal ser...

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The Victorian Government’s call for financial planning services for up to 100,000 public sector super members is the most prominent example of what is destined to become ...

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More than 70 financial planning groups have signed up with Sanford Securities to use its Virtual Broker online broking service....

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Assirt has a new chief executive officer for its research division, following changes from its sale last year to WealthPoint Data. ...

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An association representing 110,000 investors in tax-effective schemes is mounting a campaign to put tax issues relating to the schemes on the agenda for this year’s fede...

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Leading Australian insurer, AMP has pulled out of talks to buy troubled European mutual life assurer Equitable Life....

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Hunter Hall, one of the largest ethical investment trust managers is set to float in a bid to raise $4.5 million, giving the boutique fund manager a valuation of $21.1 mi...

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Former FPA president Wes McMaster is proposing a student exchange program for financial planning students as one of the new initiatives at RMIT....

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Members of America’s Certified Financial Planning Board (CFP) may soon find themselves out in the cold, following the board’s decision to cut one-third of its current boa...

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Consolidator Harts Australia has suffered a 30 per cent drop in their share price, after the company announced it lost $9.4 million last year....

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Australia’s managed funds market can look forward to another 10 to 15 years of strong growth, according to a report released by Axiss Australia....

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