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Financial planning

Planners will be spoilt for choice as the battle for financial planning software moves from the desktop to the cloud, with new entrant OpenWealth set to launch an online ...

Financial planning

Australian online broking clients are the most loyal in the world, despite mid-ranking levels of satisfaction with their brokers. ...

Funds management

Plato’s Australian Shares Income Fund has won the Lonsec/Money Management’s Fund Manager of the Year Award for best Retirement Product Innovation for 2013. ...

Funds management

Nikko AM will nominate Takumi Shibata to take over the role of director and chairman from Charles Beazley in pursuit of a new governance model ahead of its IPO....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned former Lifestyle Group chief executive Murray John Priestley from providing financial services for ...

Financial planning

Defence Bank joins with Western Union to offer Defence personnel an international funds transfer product....

Financial planning

Melbourne-based property investment firm Drapac has launched a new product aimed at giving Australian investors access to what it says is the still undervalued US real es...

Financial planning

Former PIS managing director Robbie Bennetts has signed up with Beacon Financial Group, the entity formed by the merger of The Financial Link Group and Titanium Group and...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has bowed to industry pressure by allowing planners breathing space on TASA transition....

Superannuation

Retirees will have to wear their share of the burden of declining real incomes and increased budgetary pressures, John Daley from the Grattan Institute told an ASFA lunch...

Life/Risk

AFA insists any examination of churn and self-regulation must look beyond the adviser channel....

Accounting

Count Financial welcomes Parliamentary progress of limited licensing arrangements for accountants....

Life/Risk

The FSC says it will resume development of self-regulation on churn from the position previously reached on claw-back. ...

Life/Risk

The Federal Opposition says that so far as churn exists in the life/risk sector it should be subject to a self-regulatory approach....

Editorial

Investing in equities offshore has for the past few years been a quick way to add some negatives to a balance sheet, and even the most hardened investors found the going ...

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