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As dealer groups and advisers face a spreading threat of legal action from clients, planning sector experts are becoming more concerned about the growing dangers planners...

Financial planning

Last year <I>Money Management</I> published a series of articles outlining the mess surrounding the income protection insurance market. Stuart Engel asked a number of key...

Financial planning

Business owner/operators who take out only income protection insurance to cover a possible absence still risk losing their businesses, writes David Wilkinson. ...

Financial planning

Is risk insurance becoming too risky for insurers?...

Financial planning

Advisers have an increasingly important role to play in helping the risk insurance market to refocus on long-term sustainability and offering real value to customers, wri...

Financial planning

A little under two years ago, the Wallis inquiry handed down its 700-plus-page stock-take on the financial system. So it’s appropriate to take stock of what has happened ...

Financial planning

Fleet of foot or lumbering giant: that is the choice facing the country's biggest distribution networks as they enter a new phase in competition and legislated changes. S...

Financial planning

The recent holiday period saw two crucial developments in the Ralph review of business taxation unfold. ...

Financial planning

Colonial has long had a place in the sun as the dominant distributor of financial service products in Fiji. But Colonial’s recent strong growth in the Fijian insurance ma...

Financial planning

Australians are only slightly more likely to seek the services of a financial planner when looking for financial guidance than an accountant, family member or bank manage...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based adviser group Accent Investment Services is planning to add two more practices to operate under its brand this year and is also considering expanding inte...

Financial planning

The fallout from the lengthy, convoluted and occasionally acrimonious merger last year between New Zealand's two largest financial adviser bodies continues....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has axed plans to merge with the Financial Planning Association (FPA), citing irreconcilable differences in membership bases....

Financial planning

Fund manager AM Corporation has opened Series III of its popular Traded Policies Fund, which has received some $470 million in inflows in under three years....

Financial planning

A UK-based software developer whose largest project is the AMP Adviser Workbench software has confirmed it is being sued by a major British financial institution for non-...

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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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