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Generation Xers - already feeling the strain from huge increases in housing and tertiary education costs, job insecurity and changes to welfare - can look forward to furt...
Financial planning
Deakin Financial Services Group has unveiled plans to merge with AustChoice Financial Services, a move which would see a new top 10 player enter the dealer group arena....
Financial planning
Inflows into master trusts and wraps have grown at a rapid rate but what happens to the funds once they are in the door. Jason Spits looks at where they go, who makes the...
Financial planning
As Nick Bruining’s career on the Financial Planning Association (FPA) board draws to a close, he reveals its deepest, darkest secrets…...
Financial planning
Where would you find more CFPs: at a large dealer group or a boutique? Lucie Beaman has the answer....
Financial planning
How do dealer groups pick their planners? John Wilkinson reports....
Financial planning
The impact of Financial Services Reform (FSR) is really being felt in the life industry. Julie Bennett reports....
Financial planning
Treasury Group has revealed its soon to list fund-of-funds company - Premium Investors - will be an absolute return offering investing predominantly in boutique Australia...
Financial planning
Financial planning dealer group Mawson Securities has signed up 50 life advisers into its fledgling second dealer group, Aurora Financial Planning, which offers financial...
Financial planning
For the first time in five years, fund manager and bank owned dealer groups have dropped the number of planners and dealer groups they hold, according to this year’s Mon...
Financial planning
Small and medium business owners tend to be too focused on sales and turnover and need guidance on how to derive personal wealth, according to Westpac Banking Corporation...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has lost a Full Federal Court appeal against a decision to reinstate the securities dealer licences of Saxby B...
Financial planning
Melbourne-based dealer group Quadrant Securities is reviewing the 50 per cent stake held in it by Challenger Financial Services Group (CFSG) and reassessing $300 million ...
Financial planning
Melbourne-based asset manager, APN Funds Management has launched what it claims is the first property fund with self-storage assets....
Financial planning
IOOF has been denounced in a recent Supreme Court ruling after the presiding Judge considered its case plagued with “inconsistencies” and that “virtually every witness wa...
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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’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...