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Financial planning
Financial adviser caution generated by the global financial crisis and its continuing aftermath has served to disguise a general shift away from managed funds, according ...
Funds management
The top 100 global alternative investment managers now manage in excess of $3 trillion, with 20 Australian managers making the list in Towers Watson's Global Alternatives...
Superannuation
The Industry Super Network has urged the Productivity Commission review into default super to consider ISN-commissioned research findings that past superannuation fund pe...
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...
Financial planning
Women need financial advice, and the financial planning industry needs more women, writes AMP Horizons Academy's Tim Steele....
Financial planning
Ratings house Standard & Poor's points to the changes to AXA North since AMP acquisition and institutes some downgrades....
People & Products
AMP has appointed former Super Concepts managing director Craig Jameson to help set up its new SMSF business unit....
Superannuation
The AIST will be lodging a further submission with the Productivity Commission reinforcing that default superannuation funds must be 'fit for purpose'....
Superannuation
A draft amendment to the MySuper legislation appears aimed at entrenching some of the existing default superannuation fund regime....
Superannuation
The Productivity Commission's core recommendations on default funds will open up the sector to more players and reduce the primacy of industry super funds....
Superannuation
The Productivity Commission draft report on default superannuation funds under modern awards recommends opening up the sector to all approved MySuper products. ...
Superannuation
AMP is moving to acquire Cavendish Group and will set up a new self-managed super fund business unit that will be led by Paul Sainsbury....
Financial planning
AMP has announced plans to acquire Cavendish Group and set up a new self-managed super fund (SMSF) business unit....
Editorial
With corporate blow-ups becoming commonplace and ‘short-termism’ dominating investment markets, ESG issues are more relevant than ever. ...
Accounting
By becoming licensed to provide financial advice, accountants will be able to charge clients for advice they are currently "giving away for free", says head of SMSF Advic...
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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’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...