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Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...
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The requirement under financial services reform (FSR) to audit advisers is an expensive business for the dealers and a potentially stressful one for already overworked pl...
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Iris Financial Group has swelled its ranks with yet another breakaway member of the RetireInvest dealer group network, RetireInvest Hobart....
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While it would seem the American financial consumer likes hands-on help, Australians may want some ’professional distance’, as Ray Griffin investigates....
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Two of the country’s leading boutique financial planning groups, Centrestone Wealth Management and the Berkley Group, are set to merge....
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Iris Financial Group has been confirmed as the new name for the breakaway dealer group of 22 RetireInvest planners from Victoria, as flagged by Money Management earlier t...
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The financial planning arm of the HSBC bank has signed the Aviva-owned Navigator master trust as one of only three preferred platforms for its advisers....
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Financial planning through banks has been regarded as unsophisticated, product-focused and entry level. But, as Jason Spits discovered, the banks are working hard to over...
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The overwhelming majority of clients would drop a financial planning practice cold if their current adviser were to leave the group, prompting serious questions about the...
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Sydney-based specialist investment firm Next Financial has hired two regional distribution executives to take the group’s Australian equity, debt and derivative offerings...
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has been forced to defend itself against accusations that it will not be able to police its own self imposed get-tough codes on s...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned that it may ramp up its surveillance of financial planning groups to coincide with tough new regulations o...
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A message to Robbie Bennetts from those who should know: be careful what you list for....
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Financial planning groups have been warned to keep a close watch on their advisers and to take firm action against “bad apples”, or risk future litigation by disgruntled ...
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Sydney-based specialist investment firm Next Financial has hired two regional distribution executives to take the group's Australian equity, debt and derivative offerings...
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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...
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