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Financial planning

Guardian Advice has unveiled an overhauled succession planning strategy that it says will make it easier for younger financial advisers to buy into practices and allow fo...

Financial planning

Count shareholders vote overwhelmingly for acquisition by Commonwealth Bank....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank is free to pursue an acquisition of Count Financial after being given the green light by the ACCC....

Funds management

Funds under management heads south for CommBank wealth management but FirstChoice stays in positive territory....

Financial planning

Advertised financial planning industry job vacancies have fallen over the last three months to 31 October 2011 due to regulatory change and institutional mergers, accordi...

Financial planning

New Towers Watson research reveals degree to which Australian investment managers have outperformed their global peers....

Editorial

East & Partners and Daymark Public Relations have launched the Bank Reputation Index, which seeks to rank the reputation of Australia banks among customers....

Superannuation

Retail investments have recorded the worst performance across the retirement incomes sector over the year to June 2011, losing more than $10.6 billion in funds under mana...

Financial planning

Almost 90 per cent of fixed rate home loans have fallen since August 1 with some fixed rates now available under the 6 per cent mark, according to research by financial c...

Financial planning

New research reveals degree to which Australian businesses have been spooked by overseas events....

Policy & Regulation

Independent dealer groups can still thrive in the post-Future of Financial Advice environment given the right structure, according to the Australian Financial Services (A...

Editorial

Non-aligned dealer group executives have long been warning that the new Future of Financial Advice reforms would lead to consolidation in the financial advice market. Geo...

People & Products

The Commonwealth Bank gets a new wealth head as part of post-Norris changes....

Superannuation

If the accountant's exemption is removed when the second tranche of draft Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation is released shortly, it will have positive implica...

Financial planning

The ACCC has called for submissions on the Commonwealth Bank's acquisition of Count Financial....

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