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Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...

Financial planning

When Lawrie O’Neill was just 15 years old his dream of following in his father’s footsteps as a farmer took an unexpected turn....

Financial planning

For my last article, I normally summarise my previous articles for the year. However this time I want to only do that in part. That’s because this year was the last year ...

Financial planning

Every year Money Management asks a few of the industry’s foremost names to examine the entries and sort through the detail to unearth who will be the <i>Money Management<...

Financial planning

For a man who has just been named Money Management Financial Planner of the Year, John Wotherspoon is trying awfully hard to try and make himself redundant. But then Woth...

Financial planning

In any service industry there will always be those who feel they have a need to complain. However while complaints are not exactly the most celebrated yardstick for succe...

Financial planning

A number of things strike you about Robert Kiddell’s application for this year’s <i>Money Management </i>Financial Planner of the Year award. The most obvious is that its...

Financial planning

Adelaide-based financial planner John Wotherspoon has beat out a host of other high profile advisers to win this year’s Money Management Financial Planner of the Year awa...

Financial planning

Morningstar has today hit back at a report by asset consulting group Frank Russell which questioned the value of the research house’s ratings model for managed funds....

Financial planning

Morningstar Inc, the Chicago based parent of Morningstar Research, has confirmed that it will not be pursuing legal action against the Frank Russell Company over a report...

Financial planning

Royal and SunAlliance Financial Services (RSAFS) will add a further dealer group to its distribution capabilities with the launch of its newest group, Guardian Financial ...

Financial planning

Three days of speakers, networking and the odd drink can be gruelling but the Financial Planning Association has laboured long to make its tenth convention the high point...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has not ruled out a possible increase in membership fees in line with its proposal to modify the association’s membership structu...

Financial planning

The official unveiling of Compound Investments at this year’s Financial Planning Association (FPA)annual convention will be one of the industry’s lesser guarded secrets....

Editorial

Count Financial will push ahead with dramatic expansion plans, including the launch of a new dealer group, despite reporting a lower than expected profit at its first eve...

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