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The difference in valuation between an average financial planning business and a premium business can vary by up to $370,000 depending on a number of factors, says MGI Me...

Running an information evening for new staff has proven more successful than using placement agencies, says Greg Gunther of Gunther Doyle Financial Planning....

The financial planning industry is about to go through a phase of uncertainty in its evolution into a major profession, says Jim Stackpool of Strategic Consulting and Tra...

Financial planning groups, Bleakleys and Advisor are undergoing a major restructure that could see the two merging and a number of the practices spinning off into other g...

Investment Data Technologies (IDT) has upgraded its financial planning software suite to ease the burden of recent tax changes for advisers....

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) are at odds following the release of a parliamentary report on the Financial Serv...

Dresdner RCM Global Investors business development manager Julie Rigoni has left the group but will remain in the industry in a consultancy role....

High-taxing State governments could be clawing back some of the benefits provided by the Federal Government tax reforms according to Rod Atfield, head of Mercantile Mutua...

<B>The new adviser </B>For a number of years, self managed super funds (SMSF) have been considered part-time work for many financial planning professionals across Austral...

Agricultural investment schemes suffer from an image problem, but Canberra’s only fund manager wants to change all that, as John Wilkinson reports....

Tax reform, new licensing laws and an added emphasis on professionalism and training is a turbulent time to become chairman of the Financial Planning Association. Jason S...

The growth of interest in ethical funds has been well documented but the successful staging of a two day ethical investments conference in Sydney last week confirms this ...

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