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The Supreme Court of New South Wales has reinforced the value of employment agreements, upholding Koops Martin Financial Services’ actions to stop a former adviser from l...
Financial planning
Law firm Slater and Gordon will not start legal action against financial planners who sold clients Westpoint products for about another month, and it will target the bigg...
Financial planning
Kenyon Prendeville has announced the launch of an insurance policy which will ensure buyers of financial planning practices do not default on instalment payments....
Financial planning
AMP Financial Planning (AMPFP) has appointed Michael Guggenheimer as its new managing director in the wake of Greg Kirk’s imminent departure to join Genesys Wealth Advise...
Financial planning
Australian Funds Marketing has picked up its fourth overseas fund manager to represent in Australia....
Financial planning
Aurora Funds Management is seeking subscriptions through an Initial Public Offer for a listed buy-write income trust....
Financial planning
A senior Westpoint director has accused auditor KPMG of already knowing about the failed developer’s problems before ticking-off its reports....
Superannuation
The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...
Funds management
Despite a limited number of competitors, two Australian-based global private equity funds have emerged onto the market with impressive ratings....
Financial planning
Tower Australia is offering 17 of its senior executives a total of 6.1 million share options, each for one Tower ordinary share....
Financial planning
The current turnaround in Japan’s economy heralds the beginning of further improvements, according to Japanese investment experts who are predicting trends of increased i...
Financial planning
The Federal Court of Australia in Perth has granted an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and issued interim asset freezing orders agains...
Financial planning
An Adelaide-based wealth management practice has entered a joint venture to launch an online recruitment service, called Jobs.com.au, through which it will source referra...
Financial planning
The sole director of Seabay Investments has personally guaranteed to repay a percentage of debts totalling around $18 million to 50 investors....
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a discussion paper it hopes will stimulate debate among its members and in the industry about how assumptio...
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