FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Hartley Poynton is to spin off its e-commerce division and relaunch it as a provider of e-commerce and outsourcing solutions for financial services groups....

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With the end of the financial year fast approaching it is worth looking at some the hot issues that the IFSA membership is grappling with and which will become priorities...

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A recent report by Rice Kachor predicts that Australia’s financial services industry will swing convincingly to the retail side of the industry by 2010. Stuart Engel look...

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Dear Sir, After reading your front page article, entitled “Fund managers strike out” by Jason Spits (Money Management, May 11), we felt compelled to respond in order to p...

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Private banks have failed to understand investors, and are sending clients irrelevant information and ignoring their real needs....

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Australia’s private banking industry is on the verge of massive change as new competitors and technology invade traditional territory....

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AXA is to revamp its distribution arm with the aim of attracting more independent advisers back to using the company’s products....

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Advisers may be opening themselves up to possible litigation by failing to advise clients with DIY superannuation funds on the options available to them under SLAB 3 legi...

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Correction In our article of 25 May by Jason Spits headed “Hammer falls on Wattle Scheme”, we reported that James Gerard Callahan was an authorised representative of Fina...

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Then there were three. In a similar situation as last year, with the acquisition of KPMG Financial services by St George, the financial services industry now sees an-othe...

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Perpetual’s private client division has split its financial planning operations into two separate planning tiers as a part of a restructure of the business....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months 1 week ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 4 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

3 weeks 2 days ago

A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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