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The Federal Treasurer Peter Costello is considering lobbying New Zealand ministers over problems Australian fund managers are having across the Tasman....

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has appointed Jillian Segal, former commissioner and deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), as a...

It’s about time investors took gold seriously, says Dominic McCormick....

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is again being sued for defamation by Rural & General Insurance Broking, following an earlier aborted defamation pro...

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....

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....

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...

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...

Good estate planning aims to preserve and transfer your wealth to the next generation as tax effectively as possible. One of the tools that can help clients achieve this ...

Despite headlines to the contrary, not everyone in funds management is raking in the big dollars with senior executives finding the drop in the market and the consolidati...

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

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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