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Is financial planning for most advisers an academic exercise? ...

Financial planning

Table: Snapshot of the way they were: KPMG Financial Services: Believed to be the largest player with $520 million of funds under advice, 16 advisers and about 1,000 clie...

Financial planning

Perth-based Guardian Funds Management plans to take the $10 billion private mortgage market to advisers with the launch of a new asset class....

Financial planning

With the Telstra II share offer just around the corner, it is worth contemplating the uneasy relationship between share trading and financial planning....

Financial planning

A survey by Macquarie Portfolio Services has revealed that the knowledge of wrap services among advisers has escalated over the past 12 months, and particularly over the ...

Financial planning

ING Mercantile Mutual Bank, the only specialist bank in Australia which distributes mortgages solely through advisers, has launched a new home loan product with a unique ...

Financial planning

A far reaching recent court judgement is being viewed as a wake-up call for financial planning dealer groups, highlighting the need to keep an eagle eye on their adviser ...

Financial planning

It is timely to reflect on our industry. Not because of the millen-nium, but because over the last twelve months or so we have seen a changing of the guard in the indust...

Financial planning

Financial planning groups are looking to beef up adviser numbers as the push to gain critical mass continues unabated....

Financial planning

I remember, when discretionary master trusts were becoming popular in the mid-nineties, business development managers (BDMs) employed by fund managers were concerned abou...

Financial planning

Far from being a threat to advisers, those financial service providers with a strong track record in the direct business often bring the same levels of service to adviser...

Financial planning

The overwhelming majority of financial advisers know very little about wrap accounts....

Financial planning

Over the past five years, advisers have watched from the sidelines as a number of retail financial services groups have been sold with what seem to be large price to earn...

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