FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Financial planning
News that BHP offshoot OneSteel is to outsource its superannuation has sent rip-ples of excitement through the financial services industry....
Financial planning
Your average person is usually at great pains to avoid admitting their mistakes, especially when it comes to the future of financial planning. But then again, Tom Collins...
Financial planning
The Victorian State Government is forming a committee from the financial services industry to push Melbourne as a regional financial centre....
Financial planning
Melbourne’s John Hewison has been elected the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) new chairman of the board....
Superannuation
Some of the biggest players in the financial services industry have entered the bat-tle to claim the biggest outsourcing of a corporate superannuation fund in Austra-lia’...
Financial planning
The Victorian State Government is forming a committee from the financial services industry to push Melbourne as a regional financial centre....
Financial planning
Online broker TD Waterhouse has launched an aggressive campaign in a bid to gain a dominant share of the managed funds broking market....
Financial planning
A recent report by Rice Kachor predicts that Australia’s financial services industry will swing convincingly to the retail side of the industry by 2010. Stuart Engel look...
Financial planning
Then there were three. In a similar situation as last year, with the acquisition of KPMG Financial services by St George, the financial services industry now sees an-othe...
Financial planning
Switzerland-based fund manager SAM Group has produced the world’s first index for ethical investments....
Financial planning
Last month, a former Perth financial adviser was sentenced to the second longest jail term of any financial adviser in Australia when he was sentenced to 10 years behind ...
Financial planning
The financial services industry is battling CLERP6 legislation which could cost dealers, brokers and advisers hundreds of thousands of dollars each in CGT and stamp duty....
Financial planning
Three developments over the past few weeks point to a major surge in the purchase of managed funds without advice and a major headache for advisers without their fingers ...
Financial planning
Reaction to the recent federal budget has been fairly subdued with most industry analysts noting the lack of news for the financial services industry....
Financial planning
There has been a significant and consistent move forwards in professionalism in retail financial services....
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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...