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The directors of Permanent Trustees Company and the Trust Company of Australia have announced they have agreed to a merger of the two groups creating a single entity with...
Editorial
Increased demand for Integratec training courses made a significant contribution to Tribeca Corporation’s year-end financial results, which have exceeded profit forecasts...
Superannuation
GIVEN the extremely strong growth in numbers and assets held in DIY superannuation funds, particularly self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), it is surprising that so ...
Superannuation
Consolidating overseas superannuation money has a reputation for being hard to expedite. FIONA MOORE reports on what the process involves and how it can provide your clie...
Financial planning
Independent, small planning businesses and dealer groups have asked for a clearer set of compliance processes under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA), removing wha...
Financial planning
The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....
Financial planning
AMP has added to the number of groups offering back-office solutions to financial planners with the launch of a dealer group backoffice support service....
Financial planning
Research house Morningstar has given Platinum Asset Management a two out of five business and management strength rating, citing the manager’s track record of solid inter...
Financial planning
The fees charged to investors in the retail managed fund market have fallen steadily over the last six years, according to a new study by the Investment and Financial Ser...
Financial planning
HSBC Asset Management (Australia) has been given an average rating by two major research houses this week, scoring a three in Morningstar’s Business and Management Streng...
Financial planning
Ever wondered how your boss got their job? LACHLAN GILBERT gets on the job trail and talks to some headhunters and a few of the prize trophies....
Financial planning
Job advertisements ask for all the same criteria – loads of planning experience, DFP or CFP qualifications and good communication skills. But what skills and talents are ...
Life/Risk
Are you thinking that risk insurance is not the force it once was? Well it may be time to think again as the product that built the industry re-asserts itself. JASON SPIT...
Financial planning
Queensland-based stockbroking business Wilson HTM completely recreated its business in 1996, because it had to. Now six years later, it has bedded down the introduction o...
Financial planning
Financial services industry staff who fall outside the tier one and tier two levels can now undertake a training course to understand obligations under Policy Statement (...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...