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The Securities Institute has seized the opportunity to swoop on yesterday’s deficit announcement by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) by revealing it attracted 1,6...
Financial planning
Budding software group Online Business Technologies (OBT) has signed its first major financial services client after aligning with Zurich Financial Services Australia to ...
Editorial
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will post its first end of financial year operating loss this year, with an expected $2 million deficit for 2004, due to a fall i...
Financial planning
Praemium Portfolio Services and CARM GPS have agreed to integrate their respective business platforms, to streamline and industrialise sales and business processes for fi...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) director of FSR licensing Pauline Vamos has announced her departure from the regulator following the implement...
Financial planning
Aon Wealth Management and Aon Financial Planning & Protection have snared BT Financial Group financial planning and advice (FP&A) chief operating officer Michel Scutts to...
Financial planning
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has outsourced the administration of its accreditation regimes to Tribeca Learning (previously Integratec)....
Financial planning
Advisers are changing their view of education as merely a means for compliance under FSR to embrace the concept of ‘life-long’ learning, according to the Securities Insti...
Financial planning
Financial services education provider Tribeca has completed its integration of six business units acquired over the past three years with the last of those groups today a...
Financial planning
Financial services training and education provider Tribeca has announced a 27 per cent growth in sales revenue and earnings for the first quarter of the financial year fo...
Financial planning
Franchise dealer group RetireInvest has moved to bolster its ranks with two senior appointments three months after the firm’s ING parent announced plans to restructure it...
Financial planning
AXA-owned ipac has launched a new dealer group – Monere Financial Planning – into the adviser market with the aim of targeting external advisers wanting to focus on provi...
People & Products
Former Rothschild Australia chief investment officer, Jonathan Pain, has joined HFA Asset Management (HFAAM) as a member of its newly established Investment Strategy Comm...
People & Products
Vertex Capital Management has appointed Charles Macek to its Board as a non-executive director....
Financial planning
ProQuest will change its name to FinaMetrica Limited from early February after extensive growth in offshore markets drove the need for a change in branding and marketing ...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...