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Funds management

An Australian property exchange will be launched within months and comprise 16 founding members made up of listed property fund groups, according to Property Funds Austra...

Financial planning

Financial planning in South Africa has a history as long as financial planning in Australia – and despite the country’s political problems, business is booming. In the fo...

Financial planning

The risk of litigation and class actions against planners will increase as clients become more knowledgeable about investing, warns industry doyen David Bleakley....

Financial planning

When MLC life agents went searching for a home they didn't have to look very far. MLC Financial Planning set up shop in 1988 and has been providing dealer group support f...

Financial planning

Close to ten per cent of all small superannuation funds failed to make the choice to become either a Self-Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) or a Small APRA Fund (SAF) by...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced an enforceable undertaking action on Grosvenor Securities’ 40 advisers, following a surveillance...

Financial planning

Lester Doecke has taken up the top life insurance job at Zurich Financial Services under a shake-up of the group....

Funds management

Australia's investment watchdog is still having problems with the transition to Responsible Entities (RE) under the Managed Investments Act....

Financial planning

I haven’t changed dealer groups since I’ve been in the industry. I joined Pembroke Financial Planners in 1994....

Financial planning

The banks are getting into financial planning in a big way – and the National Australia Bank is no exception. John Wilkinson reports on the growth of the National’s prem...

Financial planning

Lester Doecke has taken up the top life insurance job at Zurich Financial Services under a shake-up of the group....

Financial planning

The financial services industry is expecting healthy profit growth this year, according to the Investment and Financial Services Association’s (IFSA) annual survey....

Financial planning

When the clock ticked over to the first of April this year tens of thousands of small superannuation funds across the country had been forced to re-evaluate where they wo...

Financial planning

Targeting both large and mid-sized accountancy groups with its national network of financial planning systems, PACT is progressively building upon its $1 billion worth of...

Financial planning

Given the current state of the waters in the financial services industry, IFSA’s “Catch the Wave” theme is appropriate – even if the conference is scheduled for Melbourne...

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