FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The term "Jack of all trades and master of none" has, depending on your standpoint, two meanings. Traditionally, it is a sapient caution against the downside of spreading...

Financial planning

Former National Mutual executive director Ian Ferres is to join the Australian Unity board....

Financial planning

There has long been a saying around the financial planning and funds management traps over the years that if the major banks ever got their act together, they'd probably ...

Financial planning

The Federal Government is beginning to show the signs of frustration that the financial services industry is feeling at the slow pace of legislation aimed at reforming th...

Financial planning

This edition of Money Management is dominated by the evolving business of portfolio administration services. ...

Financial planning

After a week of Wrap conferences, perhaps the simplest explanation of why Wrap matters was expressed by an adviser - “What I like about your business is that it is about ...

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The financial services industry breathed a collective sigh of relief following the the announcement by Treasurer Peter Costello that the government will take Ralph Review...

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Money managers looking to land a new job can expect the next few months to offer their best opportunity in years, according to the latest Morgan & Banks job survey....

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Some of the world’s top direct-distribution executives in the financial services industry will address the local industry in Sydney next month....

Financial planning

Back in December I attended a conference on private banking. There I heard a speaker say the following:...

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To many in the financial services industry, the title “paraplanner” conjures up an image of a quiet techie beavering away behind the scenes on the lesser tasks of financi...

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The financial services industry could learn the proposed new owners Melbourne-based StateGuard Friendly Society by the end of this week....

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Coles Myer is to develop a multi-brand, multi-channel approach to selling financial services in its supermarkets and department stores....

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The fallout from the lengthy, convoluted and occasionally acrimonious merger last year between New Zealand's two largest financial adviser bodies continues....

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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has axed plans to merge with the Financial Planning Association (FPA), citing irreconcilable differences in membership bases....

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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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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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