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FORMER Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph has joined with the former chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

International briefs – November 7, 2002...

THE former investment services director at the St George Bank, Richard Cawsey, has given up his seat on the board of Stockford to set up his own private investment compan...

AUSTRALIAN mortgage trusts are investing an increasing proportion of their funds in cash due to the current down market, meaning investors are being hit with lower than e...

AUSTRALIAN Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) director Pauline Vamos has warned a high number of advisers are beginning to complain that dealer groups are misus...

FINANCIAL planners will now be able to gain industry standard education without the need to complete the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) Diploma of Financial Plann...

THE COMBINED National Australia Bank (NAB)/MLC group is preparing to sign off on a major restructure of its financial planning distribution network involving the repositi...

IWL’s attempt to increase its stake in Perth-based online broking group Sanford continues to be embroiled in controversy, with IWL chief executive Otto Buttula having to ...

The Australian Policy Traders (APT) group is set to make another grab for investors wanting to exit AM Corporation’s troubled Diversified Traded Policies (DTP) fund....

International briefs – October 31, 2002...

Older Australians are putting aside less private cash savings for retirement and running into more debt in their pre-retirement years, leaving the nation in a tenuous pos...

FINANCIAL advisers will not need to disclose commission on risk products thanks to the lobbying efforts of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

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