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Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has called for the ‘effective’ implementation of the Future of Financial Advice reforms if consumers are to be protected from commi...

Financial planning

Tower has made an acquisition bid for 100 per cent of the shares in Fidelity Life Assurance Company....

Financial planning

Estate planning has always been the missing piece in the financial advice puzzle. According to popular belief, financial planners have always struggled over where to plac...

Financial planning

MLC has expanded its technical team and built up support services for financial advisers, with the appointment of Gemma Dale, Peter Hogan and Martin Breckon to the team....

Financial planning

Macquarie Group’s financial planning software provider Coin has acquired the remaining 50 per cent stake in Outplan....

Editorial

Fiducian's Merton Miles explains the main principles financial planners must adhere to if they are to meet the needs of their clients....

Financial planning

A national advertising campaign to be run by AXA Asia Pacific over the next fortnight seeks to make a silver lining out of the ACCC’s blocking of its proposed marri...

Financial planning

Industry funds push virtue of intra-fund advice over “limousine service” full advice model....

Financial planning

The Rule of Law Institute of Australia has formally called for a judicial inquiry into the coercive powers utilised by Australia’s financial services regulators, in...

Financial planning

The reverse mortgage market has faced a great deal of criticism over the years. Angela Faherty looks at the issues facing the sector and asks whether it can ever shake of...

Editorial

The fallout from the GFC has shaken consumer confidence in the financial services sector, prompting an increase in direct investments. Janine Mace takes a look at what th...

Financial planning

Super funds and their service delivery agents are racing to take new intra-fund advice technology to market. ...

People & Products

AMP has appointed seven new people to its IFA Protection team in response to an increase in demand for enhanced risk in the IFA channels....

People & Products

ING Investment Management (INGIM) Australia has appointed Stuart Devlin as its southern region manager. He will be responsible for building the organisation’s prese...

People & Products

Veteran financial adviser John Campbell has been appointed Australian chairperson of the Million Dollar Round Table....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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