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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has reacted strongly to claims from the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority that commission based advisers compromised the...

Financial planning

AMP has cut 40 positions from its financial planning division as part of the wide-ranging restructure announced by the group’s new chief executive, Andrew Mohl, earlier t...

Financial planning

The Snowball Group is continuing to push ahead with a strategy to target financial planning clients through Australia’s corporate heavyweights, signing a strategic allian...

Financial planning

PLATFORM provider Coreinvest has taken competition in the investment platform market to new heights, offering cash payments to financial planners....

Financial planning

AMP says that it has replaced share options for its executives with a new ‘Performance Rights’ program which delivers a pre-determined number of AMP shares in three years...

Financial planning

The Top 100 Dealers Survey is punctuated by the moves of dealer groups, which are often the result of large wallets and large deals. SIMON SEGAL looks at what went down b...

Financial planning

CPA Australia is clearing the way for its members to go down the path to financial planning in releasing a CD-Rom designed to give accountants a leg-up into the advice in...

Financial planning

AMP financial planners have reacted positively to the appointment of Andrew Mohl as the permanent chief executive of the financial services giant....

Financial planning

Fifteen years is a long time to be doing the same thing but in August this year Money Management entered into its 15th year of providing consistent and regular coverage o...

Financial planning

THERE currently exists a level of euphoria surrounding individually managed accounts (IMAs) in the Australian investment marketplace that is highly questionable....

Financial planning

Two years on since the deals were struck, ‘golden handcuff’ incentive payouts to keep staff on board are drawing to a close, re-highlighting the challenge companies face ...

Financial planning

Up to 160 of ING’s financial advisers remain uncertain about their future within the Dutch giant after it completed the restructure of its financial planning businesses w...

Financial planning

A new management team at Norwich Union’s funds management arm, Portfolio Partners, could help the fledgling group reverse the problem of rapidly outflowing funds, accordi...

Financial planning

Only those living under a rock can claim unfamiliarity with the dismal financial predictions for today’s workers....

Financial planning

The use of stock options as part of executives’ remuneration led to an unspoken pact between investors and corporation management that has exacerbated the current malaise...

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