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Financial planning

Salaried financial planners will only receive an average pay rise of 3 to 5 per cent this year, according to the latest research from Money Management, carried out by the...

Financial planning

The planning practice of former Financial Planning Association board member Laura Menschik has joined forces with two other boutiques to set up a new business combining f...

Funds management

Hedge fund managers have been warned they will come under increasing scrutiny from the corporate regulator, which has expressed concern that the complexity of some funds ...

Financial planning

There has only been a slight increase in the overall number of financial planners in the past 12 months, and most growth now appears to be coming from the self-employed s...

Financial planning

Self-managed superannuation funds are booming and, with employee choice just around the corner, things are starting to heat up in this sector....

Financial planning

Financial planning software vendors may have differing views on whether web-based solutions will predominate in the short-term, but all providers have one thing in common...

Financial planning

The requirement under financial services reform (FSR) to audit advisers is an expensive business for the dealers and a potentially stressful one for already overworked pl...

Financial planning

Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...

Financial planning

Whether it was their claims of independence, the arguable benefits of their supposed lack of bias, or their fancy names, non-aligned financial planning practices both sma...

Financial planning

The ASX has been chastised for continuing weaknesses in its supervision of the warrants market and disclosure provisions in the listing rules, in a generally upbeat asses...

Financial planning

Compliance practices in the financial services industry are usually reactive, and only vaguely regarded as a business benefit, according to a survey of executives from 73...

Financial planning

Tribeca Learning has created the new position of director, corporate and strategy as part of a reorganisation of its senior management team....

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