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Financial planning

Rothschild has signed up three managers for its Total Return Fund, a multi-manager alternative investment fund....

Financial planning

New master trust regulations have trapped its first victim after financial planning group Chapel Road was forced to switch master trusts before regulations come in to for...

Financial planning

Snowball has recruited former St George executive Carl Scarcella as general manager of operations as it prepares to unleash its online financial services product on to th...

Financial planning

BT Portfolio Services and Zurich Financial Services have bagged the lion’s share of Investor Group’s outsourcing of support services for its financial planning division, ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed a four-year ban on former Ord Minett Jardine Fleming Futures director and futures adviser Christoph...

Financial planning

</B>Tower Life has committed to paying nearly $250,000 to 42 families previously denied claims on a funeral plan product, following an Australian Securities and Investmen...

Financial planning

AMP has moved another business arm under the umbrella of a British based investment company....

Financial planning

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has put its weight behind the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) national compliance program. ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has hit out at the delay of the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), saying the Federal Government should re-examine existin...

Financial planning

A record number of advisers are selling their businesses at the moment. The ones making the big dollars are those who run the most proactive businesses, according to Gran...

Financial planning

It is no coincidence that the new Financial Planning Association chairman is also one of Australia’s top planners. Nicole Szollos explores the new directions John Hewison...

Financial planning

Two weeks ago the Minister for Financial Services Joe Hockey released a press statement which said the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) had been halted indefinitely....

Financial planning

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has put its weight behind the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) national compliance program. ...

Life/Risk

LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill reforms will have a significant impact on the operations of life insurance agents. Nicole Szollos looks at some of the changes already ...

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