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Financial Services could soon be the latest product line for network marketers similar to those who have reshaped the cosmetics and healthcare industries....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) are in discussions with a view to merging their external complaints ...

Financial planning

How much of your time is spent advising on risk products? Do you outsource?...

Financial planning

IFSA’s first comprehensive financial services conference will kick off on Monday evening, July 19 and run through until 5pm Wednesday July 21 at Melbourne’s Convention Ce...

Financial planning

The question “are banks a threat to your business” (Money Management Adviser Feedback March 18) is essentially asking whether banks will be a viable competitor and steal ...

Financial planning

1. Name: Norm Whyte 2. Job title: Proper authority holder 3. Dealer group: Professional Investment Services ...

Financial planning

Any plans of a merger between the Life Insurance Complaints Service (LICS) and the Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) have been scuttled, at least in...

Financial planning

In previous Money Management columns, readers have been alerted to one of IFSA's major projects - the development of an industry code of ethics and associated practice st...

Financial planning

The 1998-99 financial year has just ended. As funds managers begin to write their entries for their investor and holding company annual reports, no doubt there will be so...

Financial planning

Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...

Financial planning

Life insurance research and software business PlanTech has launched a software package which it says will replace paper-based systems used to process proposals and applic...

Financial planning

Nearly two years after the Wallis Inquiry, the long awaited reforms to the regulation of the nation’s financial markets are at last on the home stretch, with the release ...

Life/Risk

1st: Suncorp 2nd: Tower Life 3rd: NRMA...

Financial planning

A new intermediary distribution channel appears to be opening up with the announcement by Amway that it is to distribute life insurance through its sales network....

Financial planning

There has long been a saying around the financial planning and funds management traps over the years that if the major banks ever got their act together, they'd probably ...

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