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Navigator Australia has moved into the provision of back office services with the rollout of what it is calling a back office master trust....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has found there are low levels of compliance by a number of promoters of tax driven mass-marketed schemes afte...

Financial planning

Recently merged financial services groups Trust Company and Permanent have teamed up with technology provider Syscorp to launch an Individually Managed Account (IMA) serv...

Financial planning

While delegates to this year’s Financial Planning Association (FPA) annual convention might be expecting to put their feet up and relax, organisers have other ideas. Ben ...

Financial planning

Australian Unity is one of the few mutual groups still in the financial services market and, as John Wilkinson writes, its new managing director plans to make sure it sta...

Financial planning

Financial planning practices have reached a stage that I would describe as mature. However, financial planning businesses are struggling to deal with an old business mode...

Financial planning

A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...

Financial planning

It promises to be a busy year for advisers and their clients. Andrew Lawless outlines key dates for 2003....

Financial planning

It’s been three years since Money Management last profiled the Glenhurst Corporation and in that time much has changed. JOHN WILKINSON reports....

Financial planning

For those of us who have spent some of our working lives in engineering or manufacturing, the importance of quality is self-evident....

Financial planning

As if the threat of war isn’t enough to worry about, the financial services industry also has an unprecedented amount of new regulation to deal with. MAX FRANCHITTO argue...

People & Products

The van Eyk Research group has filled the gap left by the departure of its former head of asset consulting, Rob Prugue, appointing John Peterson to the role. Peterson, fo...

Financial planning

Australian Planners Financial Services (APFS) will turn over $55 million this financial year through its nationwide network of 200 advisers in 90 member firms....

Financial planning

Risk insurance has long been a wallflower at the financial planning party. Hampered by the depressing reality that the client may not be around to spend the benefit, risk...

Financial planning

Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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