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MLC has appointed Susan Gosling as general manager of its implemented consulting division as part of the group’s ongoing strategy to strengthen its consulting capabilitie...
Financial planning
Pengana Capital and Barclays Global Investors are both stepping up their dealer group and platform focus with the appointment of a national distribution manager and a na...
Financial planning
Many financial planners are defining their target markets in the wrong way. Carolyn Stafford looks at how this can be turned around....
Financial planning
Helping your clients get what they need requires a team effort from you and a host of other professionals, says Jennie Murray....
Financial planning
Australian Unity director and head of funds management John Linehan is set to leave the group in mid-September, to be replaced by a yet-to-be-named successor who will be ...
Financial planning
Ipac-owned fledgling dealer group, Monere Financial Planning, has hired former Garrisons senior staffer Colin Williams to spearhead a recruitment drive to attract planner...
Financial planning
Morningstar and its former chief executive Graham Rich are one step closer to a potential courtroom showdown after the NSW Supreme Court rejected two claims by the resear...
Financial planning
AMP director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich will stand down as Financial Planning Association chairman, making way for chair-elect Kathryn Greiner - the first...
Financial planning
Advisers are looking for simple software, but their needs are often more sophisticated, writes John Wilkinson....
Financial planning
The perfect financial planning software will do just about everything, except make the coffee. But even with rapid development we’re not quite there yet, as Freya Purnell...
Financial planning
Just when you think you understand how to comply with the terms of your Australian Financial Services Licence, Batch 8 dollar disclosure arrives, writes Paula Zammit....
Financial planning
Aurora is heading into new territory with its focus on the risk and superannuation advice market. Rebecca Evans reports....
Financial planning
Madison Financial Group may be smaller in adviser numbers, but bigger is not always better as Ross Kelly discovers....
Financial planning
BT Financial Group has delivered the strongest indication to date it plans to launch a new dealer group, with the Westpac Bank-owned fund manager signing-up former Retire...
Financial planning
AMP today launched the first of what is expected to be a host of fund manager roll-outs of Term Allocated Pension products in the lead up to new retirement income streams...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...