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Financial planning

Small financial planning practices could be between $20,000 and $40,000 a year better off, after the peak association for boutique advisers signed an exclusive deal with ...

Financial planning

Branch staff would be licensed to be able to provide advice under a plan being considered by National Australia Bank chief executive Ahmed Fahour to boost the bank’s weal...

Financial planning

Fees in the superannuation industry are on their way down, according to data released by the Investment and Financial Services Association....

Editorial

Financial planners are afraid of the investment properties owned by their clients, claims Ark Group chief executive Maurice Goldberg....

Funds management

The financial services division of the Promina group will undergo an internal restructure as it looks to turn a tidy profit into a growth strategy for its adviser network...

Financial planning

The breakaway dealer group of 22 RetireInvest planners from Victoria will be known as Iris Financial Group when it launches later this month....

Financial planning

It’s official. After three years living together, ING and ANZ have signed the papers and will this year get hitched for real through their joint venture company, ING Aust...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services Group has confirmed it is in discussions with HSBC to acquire HSBC Asset Management (Australia), as first flagged by Money Management yester...

Financial planning

The chief executive of HSBC Asset Management (Australia), Barry Sheehan, has not denied speculation that the business has been sold to Challenger Financial Services....

Financial planning

Former InvestorWeb executives Toby Potter and Paul Collins have turned up at Model Portfolios, a new administration service for individually managed accounts....

Financial planning

Thanks to another administrative mishap, Tower Limited has been ordered by the corporate regulator to give $1 million back to customers whom it accidentally overcharged a...

Financial planning

Online broking firm E*Trade Australia has scotched rumours it will torpedo technology group IWL’s efforts to acquire rival broking firm JDV following reports in today’s m...

People & Products

Three new appointments have been made to the Financial Sector Advisory Council, replacing three members who have relinquished their membership as a result of leaving the ...

Financial planning

Financial Planners will face tougher conduct guidelines after a new code of practice was issued today, raising the bar on disclosure and urging advisers to give up commis...

Financial planning

Westpac chief executive David Morgan will deliver an upbeat assessment of BT Financial Group to an Australasian investment forum in New York this week....

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