INSURANCE
Editorial
In the past 12 months Singapore’s financial services industry has begun to swell as Australian groups spread their wings into Asia. As Kate Kachor reports, Singapore is n...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is preparing to sign off on its own solution to provide professional indemnity (PI) insurance cover to its members....
Financial planning
Australian Unity is one of the few mutual groups still in the financial services market and, as John Wilkinson writes, its new managing director plans to make sure it sta...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will consider backing a proposal to set up a national scheme, possibly funded by an industry levy, to compensate investors for lo...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) could have its own in-house professional indemnity (PI) solution for members within a month, if the association approves a propos...
Financial planning
Royal & SunAlliance have restructured its operations ahead of its upcoming float with a number of New Zealand based executives set to leave the group while managing direc...
Financial planning
To be successful in this business, you have to work your database and think outside the square, says DEBBIE MAYO-SMITH....
Financial planning
For those of us who have spent some of our working lives in engineering or manufacturing, the importance of quality is self-evident....
Editorial
What will happen to the world’s financial markets if there’s a war? CHARLES BEELAERTS investigates....
Financial planning
Risk insurance has long been a wallflower at the financial planning party. Hampered by the depressing reality that the client may not be around to spend the benefit, risk...
Financial planning
Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....
Financial planning
When it comes to making lasting relationships with your clients, first impressions could be what makes or breaks your business. LUCIE BEAMAN reports....
Financial planning
AMP Financial Services (AMPFS) has announced a restructure that will split the group into two groups centred around the distribution and manufacturing arms....
Financial planning
The Royal & SunAlliance Group’s Australasian arm has been renamed Promina in preparation for its upcoming float....
Life/Risk
Professional Investment Services (PIS) is moving against broad industry trends to add risk insurance and taxation services within financial planning businesses....
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MARKET INSIGHTS
Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...