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Financial planning

A Melbourne e-commerce company has launched what is believed to be the UK’s first wrap account and signed up 15 dealer groups to use the new service....

Financial planning

Superannuation and insurance sales in Colonial’s Australian Financial Services division (AFS), which includes financial planning and banking operations, rose 120 per cent...

Financial planning

The Internet can be a powerful leveller of the playing field, allowing the differences between medium sized and large financial planning firms to evaporate quickly....

Life/Risk

Associated Planners has come up with what it believes is the first wrap account style system for life insurance products....

Financial planning

Perpetual Private Clients’ group executive Wayne Wilson likes a bit of a wager every now and then. And we’re not talking the odd tenner, either. This is why Wil-son has i...

Financial planning

It won’t be long before a host of Australian Internet sites will being doing many of the tasks that keep financial planners busy. But, according to Hillross Financial Ser...

Financial planning

The Financial Planners and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA) has launched a Web site in an attempt to lift the profile of the organisation....

Financial planning

US-based online financial services giant Charles Schwab and Barclays are to create create an online foreign exchange where Schwab investors outside the US can buy and sel...

Financial planning

Associated Planners has come up with what it believes is the first wrap account style system for life insurance products....

Financial planning

New Zealand’s Labour government has back-tracked on its pre-election promise to introduce an income tax funded superannuation fund in the face of parliamentary op-positio...

Financial planning

The merger of Norwich Union’s and CGU’s head offices in Melbourne has not been ruled out as part of the £20 billion global merger announced in London last week....

Financial planning

But while the New Zealand credit union movement has plans that are ready to go, they feel they are being stifled by New Zealand government in their attempts to es-tablis...

Financial planning

Everybody loves looking for work, particularly when you’re already working. There’s nothing better than hunching over your telephone, whispering at almost incoherent leve...

Financial planning

A range of UK investment products are expected to become available in Australia with Colonial’s latest acquisition, a Scottish fund manager....

Financial planning

BT institution Steve Newnham is leaving the group after 13 years to head up distribution at Zurch Financial Services....

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