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ANZ Financial Planning is rolling a further 10 to 20 per cent of its advisers over to a fee for service remuneration model adding to the initial 10 per cent who made the ...

Financial planning

The financial planning arm of Bendigo Bank, Bendigo Investment Services (BIS), has made unprecedented changes to its adviser remuneration structure to take into account n...

Financial planning

From almost a standing start, Capstone Financial Planning has grown rapidly to earn a place on our list of Fastest Growing Independent Dealers....

Financial planning

Whether you are running a business or a basketball team – a top performance requires a quality coach, writes BRUCE BIRCHALL....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has warned that the salaried financial advisers of banking institutions may not have to disclose all the influences inducing t...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put institutions with aligned advisers on notice after a recent surveillance project found that commission...

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Treasury Group has announced a management reshuffle that will see the group put a greater focus on managing and growing its existing boutique investment managers rather t...

Financial planning

Total Financial Solutions Australia (TFS) has concluded the takeover of a least half of the advisers working under the Silvalake Financial Services Group banner in time t...

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Wollongong-based Total Financial Solutions Australia has picked up the advisers and client base of Brisbane-based Silvalake Financial Services after the latter was placed...

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In the cut-and-thrust world of recruitment, consultants have been known to make exaggerated promises, warns Peter Dawson....

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The Federal Government has used the last sitting day of Parliament this year to introduce legislation backing the latest iteration of the Corporate Law Economic Reform Pr...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform regime is creating demand for planners with a different skill set. Mike Taylor and Lucie Beaman report....

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The life insurance industry had gone off the rails. But, as Jason Spits writes, fortunes are slowly turning as it returns to its core competencies....

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has voiced opposition to Labor’s proposed ban on commissions for superannuation guarantee contributions, arguing this would make ...

Financial planning

A Westpac Banking Corporation strategic review going under the moniker of Project Sunrise may be inadvertently fuelling a large number of adviser departures from the grou...

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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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