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Financial planning

Northern Trust has continued its Asia-Pacific expansion with opening of Seoul office. ...

Superannuation

Vertical integration is off the radar for the time being but may come back if amendments to the FOFA legislation are revived according to ISA. ...

Financial planning

Westpac will sell five of its Pacific Island banking operations as it focuses on Fiji and Papua New Guinea....

Financial planning

FPA backs FSI recommendation that ASIC be given product intervention powers. ...

Life/Risk

Cromwell Property Group has entered a conditional deal to purchase European property funds manager, Valad Europe, for $208 million....

People & Products

TAL parent, Dai-ichi, announces North American and Asia-Pacific expansion plans....

Financial planning

FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has asked members to imagine a profession that is highly regarded and urged them to get behind recommended changes to higher education an...

Superannuation

AIST urges Government not to adopt Board of Taxation’s recommendations lifting the super payment threshold for low income workers to $1350 a quarter....

Funds management

Perpetual has announced net inflows of $500 million for the December quarter largely driven by inflows into Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited, the group’s firs...

Financial planning

SPAA chief executive, Andrea Slattery, says SMSF trustees should feel comforted by the level of regulatory scrutiny the sector receives....

Financial planning

The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre says ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft, is off the mark when he pushes for a national exam in the absence of evidence it will a...

Financial planning

AFA Chief Commercial Officer Anne Fuchs will leave the association after six months in the role to take on a distribution role with Sunsuper....

Financial planning

The raft of reviews and inquiries into the financial planning sector has created the optimal set of circumstances in which to lift professional and educational standards ...

Financial planning

The FPA will drop its efforts to enshrine 'financial planner' under law claiming it would be automatically protected if recommendations from the PJC are adopted by the Fe...

Financial planning

Standard Life opens new offices amid continued global growth....

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