INSURANCE

Financial planning

Insurance brokers must act now to implement a compliance infrastructure to meet the demands of the ASIC policy statement 161 according to Paul Harding-Davis head of the F...

Financial planning

AMP has announced a major turnaround in profit for the first half of 2000 with an increase of over $900 million over the same period last year....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will pay NZ$560 million to buy out the remaining quarter share of the ASB Bank in New Zealand....

Financial planning

Swedish investment and insurance giant, Skandia, has announced an intention to enter the Australian retail savings market and will shortly establish its headquarters in S...

Financial planning

The Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the deadline for compliance with its training requirements to 30 June 2002....

Financial planning

One of the most well known faces in the life insurance industry, Alan Betts, has teamed up with South African life insurer Capital Alliance to launch Australia’s first ne...

Financial planning

A new law signed in the US is about to make electronic signatures as legally binding as their ink counterparts. Stephen Langsford discusses the repercussions of this hist...

Policy & Regulation

The Investment Savings and Insurance Association (ISI) has claimed a victory following Government amendments to the superannuation funds withdrawal tax, included in the T...

Financial planning

The risk of litigation and class actions against planners will increase as clients become more knowledgeable about investing, warns industry doyen David Bleakley....

Financial planning

Australia’s financial advice industry is underpinned by licensing arrangements enforced and administered by the ever shrinking resources of our investment watchdog. Tom C...

Financial planning

Financial planning in South Africa has a history as long as financial planning in Australia – and despite the country’s political problems, business is booming. In the fo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced an enforceable undertaking action on Grosvenor Securities’ 40 advisers, following a surveillance...

Financial planning

Planners should not be put off from entering the self-managed funds advice market by complex legislation, says PSI Group chief executive officer Paul Kolatchew....

Financial planning

Guild Commercial, the commercial arm of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, is to change its name reflect the group’s financial service activities....

Financial planning

Assirt has slapped a hold notice on Paladin property trusts following the decision by Norwich and Paladin minority shareholders to offload the group to Deutsche Asset Man...

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