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Phillips Fox insurance and financial services managing director Michael Gill has stepped down after 18 months in the job to focus on his legal practice....

Financial planning

In a recent issue of Money Management, Grant Abbott looked at the issue of proactivity. In this issue, he outlines how to turn your financial planning practice into a fin...

Financial planning

The past five years will certainly remembered by financial services historians as the time our big institutions threw off the shackles of their mutual structures and demu...

Financial planning

The Australian financial planning industry has a history of following some of the major trends emanating from the United States. In the hope of gaining an insight on wher...

Financial planning

Online financial transactions have become almost commonplace among the richest third of Australian society. Mike Taylor asks whether the Australian populace is ready for ...

Financial planning

RetireInvest and Godfrey Pembroke have beaten off six competitors to supply financial planning and advice to members of Towers Perrin SuperSolutions superannuation packag...

Life/Risk

Former Armidale-based insurance broker, John Murray Murnane has pleaded guilty to charges of theft, being an unregistered insurance broker and operating a business while ...

Financial planning

AXA is on the prowl for dealer groups to boost its distribution network, group chief executive Les Owen has confirmed....

Financial planning

Global sector funds may be the flavour of the month for funds management marketeers, but there is a limit to the number of sectors that can be realistically used....

Financial planning

NSP Buck is launching an online superannuation administration service for fund members....

Financial planning

LIFE insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruling....

Financial planning

AM Corporation is one of the last surviving independently owned financial services groups in Australia. STUART ENGEL examines the impact of one of the biggest revamps in ...

Life/Risk

AM Corporation has pulled the plug on its own life insurance company as a part of one of the biggest revamps in the group’s 25 year history....

Life/Risk

LIFE insurers will take a hit to the bottom line if the delayed Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is resurrected....

Financial planning

A year as chairman of the FPA is a year full of activity. Indeed it is year full of activity, much of which is propelled by change. And it is change that has moved from t...

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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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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

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Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...

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