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The Money Management/Dexx&r Adviser Choice Risk Awards, now in their third year, are based on a number of criteria and processes....

Life/Risk

Unlike the majority of term and total and permanent disability (TPD) products, Protection Life from Aviva is payable after three months rather than six. According to Tim ...

Financial planning

A reshuffle of Promina Group’s executive management team will see Tyndall Investment Management’s chief executive and chief investment officer Michael Goode reporting to ...

Financial planning

MLC has finalised a deal giving it 100 per cent ownership of a Hong Kong-based wealth management business for a purchase price of $148 million....

Financial planning

Tribeca Learning has created the new position of director, corporate and strategy as part of a reorganisation of its senior management team....

Financial planning

Investors are too desensitised to terrorism for yesterday’s attacks on London to have any major impact on investment markets, according to industry participants....

Editorial

Most Australians are under-insured, but how much cover is enough? Ken Lockery discusses the pitfalls for consumers....

Financial planning

Financial planners who work for the Commonwealth Bank’s operations in Hong Kong will now operate under Canadian insurance company Sun Life....

Financial planning

Australian Unity is to finally consider demutualising as part of a move to grow its business, after resisting the trend set by similar organisations for 10 years....

Financial planning

Aviva has won a tender to supply investment platform services to HBOS’ financial planning arm, St Andrews....

Editorial

DAVID ANDERSON continues his look at what employers need to be doing in preparation for choice of fund...

Editorial

With the recent announcement of new player Virgin Super came a flurry of reaction from the Australian industry. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

It’s time again to return to the topic of gold. It comes at an interesting time when (at least at the time of writing) gold was confounding many critics by rising in pric...

Financial planning

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The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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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 cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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