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Centrestone Wealth Advisory Group has acquired the risk insurance practise of Garvan Financial Planning risk insurance representative Phil Dixon....
Financial planning
Colourful British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin group has blasted Australian financial planners as self-interested and greedy while yesterday revealing that it wou...
Financial planning
The financial services division of the Promina group, Asteron, has begun a program to more closely align its Australian and New Zealand businesses....
Financial planning
Branch staff would be licensed to be able to provide advice under a plan being considered by National Australia Bank chief executive Ahmed Fahour to boost the bank’s weal...
Life/Risk
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has successfully appealed to the South Australian Supreme Court after the Magistrates Court failed to convict a forme...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers’ long quest to resolve its designation woes will come to fruition at the end of the month when advisers officially take on its new F...
Financial planning
The Opposition has slammed the final choice of fund regulations released by the Federal Government yesterday as costly, complex and unsafe....
Life/Risk
Most Australians do not understand income protection insurance, and either aren’t covered or have insufficient cover, according to a new study....
Financial planning
It’s official. After three years living together, ING and ANZ have signed the papers and will this year get hitched for real through their joint venture company, ING Aust...
Financial planning
The Federal Government will move to override state laws in order to give employees on state based employment awards the option to choose their own superannuation fund....
Financial planning
The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...
Financial planning
MLC will present its new look MasterKey platform to the market next week when it goes live with a raft of changes announced late last year aimed at enabling advisers to m...
Financial planning
Zurich Financial Services Australia has centralised all its corporate superannuation and wrap operations, creating a new dual role to oversee its activities in these area...
Financial planning
Professional indemnity insurance premiums for financial planners decreased by around 12.5 per cent in 2004 and are set to remain reasonably stable despite the impending i...
Financial planning
The level of alternative assets retail investors should hold remains a controversial issue, with the broad and contrasting views across the industry exposed in a high lev...
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