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Industry Funds Services (IFS) has defended its planners following the release of a research exercise that found deficiencies in aspects of Industry Funds Financial Planni...

Editorial

The Australian financial planning industry has finished 2009 having successfully surmounted a number of its greatest challenges, writes Mike Taylor....

Editorial

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (the Ripoll Inquiry) has delivered precisely what could be expected from a parliamentary inquiry ...

Financial planning

IFSA's super charter alters fee structures for advice and changes the ground rules on advertising....

Editorial

If one thing has been made clear in our examination of platforms and wraps in Money Management, it is that financial planning operates within a highly commercial and, th...

Financial planning

AMP argues for changes to fund categorisation - a move that would eliminate the distinction between industry funds and retail master trusts....

Financial planning

The IFSA submission to the Cooper Review has argued that advice should be expressly recognised in superannuation legislation....

Editorial

In the wake of recent corporate scandals and the global financial crisis, Ray Griffin asks whether the label ‘financial planner’ has become a burden to the industry....

Editorial

Membership of large, well-resourced superannuation funds has its advantages, writes Mike Taylor....

Financial planning

A Queensland financial planner has used his submission to the Rippoll inquiry to question the motives and actions of industry superannuation funds in what he views as a "...

Financial planning

Commissions may not be extinct in the financial services industry - but they are now a seriously endangered species....

Financial planning

Thanks to the Rudd Labor Government's first Cabinet reshuffle financial services now has a seat at the Cabinet table but, as Mike Taylor reports, it remains for the indus...

Editorial

Financial planning commissions may not be extinct but they are now a seriously endangered species....

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has produced a discussion paper proposing deeper data collection on superannuation that may make it easier for consumers to...

Editorial

It would have come as no surprise to the chief executive of the Financial Planning Association, Jo-Anne Bloch, that she was subject to some stern questioning from the flo...

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