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Funds management

Two new partners have signed up to Future IM/Pact, a campaign launched last year aimed at attracting more diversity to investment management, bringing the number signator...

Tools & guides

Minh Ly breaks down the new means testing rules for lifetime income streams, which have now been legislated by Parliament....

Financial planning

Challenger Limited has confirmed the degree to which the negative perception of advisers generated by the Royal Commission is hitting its bottom line....

Financial planning

Challenger Limited has hit choppy waters with challenging market conditions dragging on its half-year profit....

Financial planning

New research has pointed to financial planners seeing themselves as being more comfortable as asset allocators rather than stock-pickers and leaning towards goals-based a...

People & Products

Challenger has looked internally naming Angela Murphy as the executive to replace Richard Howes as he steps up to the chief executive role next year....

Funds management

Challenger platforms are expected to continue to benefit from industry concerns around wealth management....

People & Products

Brian Benari will retire as chief executive of Challenger and be replaced by Richard Howes....

People & Products

Stanford Brown has hired a senior business development manager as demand for managed accounts grows. ...

Financial planning

HUB24 has posted record net inflows for the first quarter of $638 million and representing a 19.3 per cent growth....

People & Products

Challenger and HUB24 have announced that the former’s annuities should be available to advisers and clients on the platform by the 2019 financial year....

Superannuation

Seventy per cent of Australians over 50 worry about the potential for another global financial crisis, according to the latest National Seniors Australia survey....

Tools & guides

Funding aged care is one of the biggest obstacles advisers’ older clients may face. Sean Howard outlines strategies that may help ease the burden....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers have cautioned against allowing a retirement income covenant trumping advice, but Challenger ...

People & Products

The insurance giant and global fixed-income manager have teamed up to enter the retirement income solutions space, posing a competitive threat to annuities provider Chall...

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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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7 months ago

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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