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Financial planning

MLC has pre-empted any future moves to ban exit fees on investment and superannuation products by removing such fees from all new products offered by the group....

Financial planning

Women could be the big winners from the superannuation co-contribution scheme for low income workers, with more than 126,000 expected to have their retirement savings top...

Accounting

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have moved to head off a further bid by accountants to get a larger...

People & Products

Financial planning dealer firm Mawson Group chief executive Les mace has been appointed to head up subsidiary life adviser dealer group Aurora Financial Planning, which k...

Financial planning

Self funded retirees could see their savings targeted by future Federal Governments as the nation struggles to raise sufficient tax revenue from traditional sources, a le...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has signalled it will continue with its push to clean up the profession and raise the standard of advice provided by financial pl...

Financial planning

Defaulting investors in agribusiness managed investment group Palandri are set to lose their units as the company commences proceedings against them....

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services suitor Farooq Khan has succeeded in his crusade of seizing control of the listed financial services group with the ousting of RFS chief executiv...

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services (AFS) has transferred $180 million to Russell Investment Group as part of a new strategy to outsource investments to established multi-manag...

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services (RFS) has had two legal disputes relating to accusations of insider trading activities in its stock dismissed in the Federal Court of New South ...

Financial planning

Recent ‘Point of View’ comments on the future of ‘networks’ by Ray Miles and Paul Brown (MM September 9, August 26) raise some interesting challenges and concerns for ins...

Financial planning

Even the most technology savvy financial planners are inclined to switch off when the discussion turns to ‘straight through processing’. But that could soon change, write...

Financial planning

The departing chair of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has sent a strong signal to the association’s members that it is planning to stay on course with reforms t...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services Group shareholders voted at the group’s annual general meeting yesterday to a resolution to consolidate the firm’s shares as part of a one f...

Financial planning

The financial services industry is one step nearer to having closure on the looming and potentially crippling cost of having to identify more than nine million investors ...

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