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Uncertainty surrounding FSRA licensing requirements continues to prevail, with many corporate super fund trustees still confused as to whether or not they need a license ...

AUSTRALIANS are paying too much for funds under management, and consumers should have the option of paying fees on a performance basis to compensate for underperforming f...

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will begin a series of campaigns targeting commissions and disclosure in a three-pronged strategy as part of i...

At what point should a financial planning business consider outsourcing back-office functions and when is the right time to do it? FIONA MOORE reports on the telltale sig...

The use of stock options as part of executives’ remuneration led to an unspoken pact between investors and corporation management that has exacerbated the current malaise...

Count Financial has recorded an after-tax profit of $4.72 million for the end of the 2002 financial year, which is an increase of 17 per cent above their profits for the ...

The directors of Permanent Trustees Company and the Trust Company of Australia have announced they have agreed to a merger of the two groups creating a single entity with...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) wants to see legislation for a national professional standards act put in place to solve the current professional indemnity (PI) ...

Perpetual Trustees Australia today reported a full year net profit of $75.6 million, up 38 per cent from the prior year....

Bridges Financial Services Group has struck a deal with the Police & Nurses Credit Society to share in Perth-based dealer group IGP Financial Services....

Challenger International has turned the financial services sector’s push to have its proposed ‘growth pensions’ granted complying income stream status on its head, with t...

Sagitta Wealth Management has formed an international alliance with a property securities manager, the first such alliance under the group’s new structure since Rothschil...

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