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The St George Bank group has made significant changes to its wealth management division, impacting both the investment management arm of Advance Funds Management and rese...
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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) have hit out at comments by the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) financial services senior policy officer Catherine Wol...
Financial planning
As the call for professional standards echoes around Asia, various industry bodies are lining up for a piece of the action. Ben Abbott reports....
Financial planning
If we thought we had problems in Australia, they pale in comparison to those besetting the financial planning industry in Canada. Julie Bennett and Lucie Beaman report....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will find it impossible to solve its professional indemnity (PI) insurance woes, according to a leading insurance broking house a...
Editorial
The financial planning industry in the UK is in a state of flux. Lisa Bowman reports....
Financial planning
Count Financial Services managing director Barry Lambert has strenuously denied claims the group operated without professional indemnity (PI) insurance cover after a numb...
Financial planning
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) head of financial planning Geoff Austin will be replaced this week after two years at the helm of the group’s advisory business....
Financial planning
Staff rationalisation at both IOOF and AM continued last week with another 50 staff being retrenched but IOOF managing director Rob Turner says the group’s long awaited l...
Financial planning
When is gearing okay? When the client understands what they are getting into and agrees it is an acceptable strategy. Paul Resnik reports....
Financial planning
Tower Australia has appointed John de Zwart as its new chief financial officer, reporting to chief executive Jim Minto and the Tower group’s chief financial officer, Will...
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s (CBA) international wealth management businesses First State Investments UK and First State Investments Asia are to be combined and r...
Financial planning
Colonial First State (CFS) has signed IOOF retail funds management general manager Richard Nunn to the general manager distribution role recently vacated by Michael Cant....
Financial planning
The ANZ Banking Group could be making the move from the BT Wrap to ING MyWrap for its Private Clients division, according to the ING group....
Financial planning
Margin lending is not the only way to get into gearing. Philip McLean looks at instalments as an alternative....
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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 ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...