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Advisers using a fee-for-service model of financial planning remuneration could face increased professional indemnity (PI) insurance burdens, according to prominent plann...

Two former IWL staff, Laila Khodr, Jenny Lee-Koksal and one of the creators of Visiplan, Robert Green, have set up a new group aimed at helping advisers purchase and full...

Australian baby boomers will have to save for their own retirement rather than rely on inheritance handouts, as existing retirees are living longer and increasingly optin...

The Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiry into commissions on risk products has veered away from recommending mandatory disclosure rules for risk advisers, warning that t...

Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO) Australia has had its Australian and international equities capabilities lauded by Assirt with the research house branding the quantitati...

Australian fund managers are confident this financial year will prove more fruitful than 2002/03 despite the failure of estimates made this time last year to materialise....

Software and information supplier Investment Data Technologies (IDT) will now offer general insurance research, quotation and electronic policy fulfilment capabilities as...

Australian Unity has restructured its life insurance operations, including its bond products, and has spun to divisions out into a new company called Australian Unity Inv...

Beacon Financial Services will change its name to Tranzact Financial Services and sell Australia First Superannuation Administration and Australia First Consulting under ...

NSW-based financial planners will avoid the added burden of payroll tax due to an ‘imminent’ ruling by the NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) that will recognise planners ...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Australian Financial Services Limited (AFS) managing director Geoff Moore has resigned after eight years with the group....

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