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Financial planning

Tower mounts $96 million capital raising on the back of solid first half result....

People & Products

Colonial First State has appointed Scott Durbin as its new head of platform sales, replacing Aubrey Roga, who left the firm to join MLC in a key insurance role in Februar...

Life/Risk

The latest Rice Warner report shows the number of direct life insurance products sold in Australia has increased by 29 over the past two years....

Funds management

Wealthy and Wise Lifestyle Planning will be opening a chain of retail shopfronts that will serve as one-stop-shops for both financial advice and real estate services....

Life/Risk

New research suggests Australians are failing to adopt life cover because they overestimate the premium costs....

Financial planning

Being healthy will soon pay off for Asteron customers in the form of up to 20 per cent off their insurance premiums....

People & Products

Suncorp Life has announced the appointment of Richard Bellis to the role of executive manager of life risk adviser solutions....

Financial planning

Smartline Personal Mortgage Advisers has partnered with Aon Financial Planning & Protection to extend its risk insurance offering....

Financial planning

Mark Bouris' Yellow Brick Road has outlined an ambitious growth strategy built around accounting and mortgage broking, with financial planning being kept at its core....

Life/Risk

Suncorp is aiming to improve the underlying margin of its insurance business by 3 per cent over the next two years....

Financial planning

The changes taking place in the industry mean business development managers (BDMs) will need to be able to talk about more than just product, according to ING Australia....

Financial planning

New Macquarie research reveals the degree to which boutique practices have turned to risk to maintain revenue....

Policy & Regulation

Assistant Treasurer Nick Sherry has announced the terms of reference for the review of the tax treatment of Islamic finance in Australia, which is to be undertaken by the...

Financial planning

PIS will be forced into a new era of transparency if the proposed merger between its parent company and listed premium funding company Centrepoint Alliance takes place....

Financial planning

Macquarie launches new product with single policy encompassing life, trauma and TPD....

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