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Financial planning

ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...

Financial planning

TAL has upgraded its online financial adviser portal, the TAL Adviser Centre, with improvements to adviser online tools and functionality as well as product and underwrit...

People & Products

Richard Grellman will take the position of non-executive chairman for Genworth Australian companies, supporting the company's efforts to gain a minority share IPO of its ...

Financial planning

A new full-service stock broking group has launched in Australia this week - the Octa Phillip Financial Group....

Superannuation

The superannuation guarantee will gradually increase from 9 per cent to 12 per cent over the next seven years, following the passage of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax thr...

People & Products

Former Count chief executive Andrew Gale has joined the board of SPAA four months after his departure from Count....

Financial planning

The Coalition has expressed disbelief the FPA may have done a deal with the ISN conceding opt-in in exchange for other concessions including enshrining the term “financia...

Financial planning

The FPA has announced a series of educational workshops that will address recent poor results from ASIC's financial planning shadow shop....

People & Products

Following an organisational restructure and cost reduction program, Praemium Limited has announced a number of key changes to its board of directors....

Policy & Regulation

A document has circulated purporting to show an agreement between the Financial Planning Association and Industry Super Network involving a trade-off, conceding opt-in ag...

Superannuation

Many Australians still do not understand enough about their superannuation funds, including how they're actually invested or whether they'll have enough in retirement....

Financial planning

The AIOFP has selected the OneVue platform as a new private label solution to partner with its privately owned Personal Choice Management platform....

Superannuation

The AIST has opened its Conference of Major Superannuation Funds with a defence of the equal representation of employers and employees on not-for-profit superannuation fu...

Superannuation

The Actuaries Institute has renewed calls for APRA to strengthen Australian superannuation standards due to the growth of the industry....

Financial planning

Perpetual's senior portfolio manager Vivek Prabhu has won a Hugh DT Williamson Performance Scholarship, presented by the Financial Services Institute of Australasia....

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