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The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a discussion paper it hopes will stimulate debate among its members and in the industry about how assumptio...
People & Products
Jo-Anne Bloch of Mercer Human Resources Services will relocate from the United Kingdom to become the new chief executive of the Financial Planning Association....
Financial planning
The FPA is expecting financial services providers to modify their products in response to market demands for separately disclosed product and advice fees following the im...
Superannuation
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has released its second Policy Options for Retirement Incomes and Long Term Savings report, which contains recomm...
Financial planning
The IFSA Regulatory Affairs Board Committee has outlined its intended approach toward improving regulation for the financial service industry with the release of its Head...
Financial planning
The financial services industry has deep conflicts of interest and structural problems that fund managers and financial planners must seek collective solutions to accordi...
Financial planning
Mothers need to lift their level of life insurance cover, but most believe it is too expensive to do so, according to research conducted by TNS Australia on behalf of IFS...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association’s (IFSA’s) influence on financial services policy debates was never more evident, nor better rewarded, than in 2005, whe...
Financial planning
Australian couples will now be able to split their superannuation contributions after January 1, 2006, with legislation ratifying the move passed by the Senate....
Financial planning
Industry groups have responded favourably to their possible involvement in the formulation of four additional example statements of advice ASIC intends to release in the ...
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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’...
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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...