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Financial planning

Advisers selling Term Allocated Pensions (TAPs) have been warned they may be putting themselves in the firing line of future litigation because of the higher commissions ...

Financial planning

Investors are less interested in the fees-versus-commissions debate and much more interested in finding an adviser they can depend on, writes Craig Dunn....

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning, as of next year, will demand its more than 1,000 authorised representatives sit an annual exam before they can continue practicing under the banne...

Financial planning

Boutique investment group Select Asset Management has stepped up its push into the absolute return and alternative investment space, bringing former Berkley Group head of...

Financial planning

Former AMP-owned HHG is closing its global financial planning operations, Towry Law International (TLI), to new business due to the tough market conditions faced by advi...

Financial planning

AMP is confident of a reversal of fortune following last year’s $5.5 billion loss, announcing today a renewed commitment to regional wealth management and flagging allian...

Financial planning

AMP has revamped its fledgling non-super AMP Flexible Lifetime Investments product, which was launched in June 2003, by expanding the offering to include 47 different inv...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has given directions to AMP Life, while the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an ...

Financial planning

AMP has confirmed that it is willing to review its investment platform strategy as part of a bid to rejuvenate its wealth management business under new chief executive An...

Financial planning

The perception that planners are doing it tough has been confirmed by this year’s funds under advice per planner figures. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group Survey highlights the enormous impact a National Australia Bank takeover of AMP would have on the financial services industry. Mik...

Financial planning

If the National Australia Bank is ultimately successful in nabbing AMP, it will unbalance the pillars of power says, Graham Rich....

Financial planning

AMP Limited has cleared one of the final hurdles to the demerger of its Australian and UK operations, following receipt today of ‘in principle’ approval from the Australi...

Financial planning

The life insurance industry has recorded falls in single premium sales of 12 per cent for the 12 months to the end of June, according to research released by Dexx&r....

Financial planning

AMP affiliated financial advisers in New Zealand are thumbing their noses at a proposed support package by the company to help them through the de-merger process....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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