FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Fund manager and financial planning firm, Fiducian Portfolio Services, has closed its $22.4 initial million public offering oversubscribed....

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) are at odds following the release of a parliamentary report on the Financial Serv...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) are at odds following the release of a parliamentary report on the Financial Serv...

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Investment Data Technologies (IDT) has upgraded its financial planning software suite to ease the burden of recent tax changes for advisers....

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Financial planning groups, Bleakleys and Advisor are undergoing a major restructure that could see the two merging and a number of the practices spinning off into other g...

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The financial planning industry is about to go through a phase of uncertainty in its evolution into a major profession, says Jim Stackpool of Strategic Consulting and Tra...

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Running an information evening for new staff has proven more successful than using placement agencies, says Greg Gunther of Gunther Doyle Financial Planning....

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The difference in valuation between an average financial planning business and a premium business can vary by up to $370,000 depending on a number of factors, says MGI Me...

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The proposed back-office alliance between Suncorp Metway and newly-listed NRMA Insurance Group has come to a halt, with the Suncorp choosing to look elsewhere....

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Further problems have cropped up for the former Soho Lemon scheme managers, with Suncorp Metway calling in its loan on the Victorian farm....

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AXA’s Tasmanian dealership services manager Kate Stephenson has left the group to join Deloitte Financial Services....

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