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Financial planning
The rapid expansion of the Big Four banks and AMP into financial planning could see them seize an 80 per cent stake in the advice market, research suggests. ...
Superannuation
If increasing Australia’s superannuation savings pool is the aim of the game, introducing competition to the default funds space is a logical solution, writes Patricia Mo...
Financial planning
One of Fidante Partners’ boutique fund managers is set to disband after more than eight years in the market, Money Management understands. ...
Financial planning
Shareholders’ unwillingness to “take a hit” in tough economic times is almost solely responsible for a wave of offshoring plaguing the wealth management space, the Financ...
Funds management
Institutional investors are assessing their options after reining in their return expectations in 2014 despite above forecast performances last year, the AMP Capital Inst...
Financial planning
AMP offers cost reductions to customers using its North platform....
People & Products
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed AMP group executive insurance and superannuation Pauline Blight-Johnston to its board....
Superannuation
Corporate superannuation specialists are urging the Federal Government to make employers using the funds wholesale rather than retail clients, to remove conflicts for adv...
Editorial
Direct property still seems a hot item for investors, with the housing market on fire over the December quarter. While figures have dropped slightly over the March quarte...
Financial planning
AMP's first wave of 46 job losses appears to be just the start of staged plans to substantially reduce staffing numbers across the business, the Finance Sector Union (FSU...
Funds management
Australian shares surpassed international shares over April, with Australian listed property the standout for growth assets, the Morningstar Australian Institutional Surv...
People & Products
Hunter Hall appoints former AMP Capital staffer Barbara Glover as head of retail sales....
Life/Risk
AMP chief executive Craig Meller has told shareholders the company is re-engineering its insurance business, believing recent customer behaviour may be here to stay....
Editorial
AMP announces solid quarter of inflows underpinned by North platform....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...