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Financial planning
Professional codes of conduct that meet approval in terms of obviating the need for financial advisers to comply with opt-in will need to achieve the same outcomes as opt...
Financial planning
After taking more than $150,000 from 100 of his clients, Mayfield-based risk agent Phillip Paddison has received a permanent ban from the financial services industry, ASI...
Financial planning
AMP Capital has picked up a key fixed income mandate from BT Financial Group and Advance....
Funds management
New analysis from the US suggests investors are insisting hedge funds insure against the untimely demise of their investment gurus....
Superannuation
The deepening use of social media for member communication is pushing superannuation funds closer to transgressing the legal frameworks set in place to govern general and...
Financial planning
New research suggests the Eurozone crisis has accelerated the use of mobile apps to help financial advisers stay close to their high net worth clients....
Editorial
Multi-manager funds might have done well on the inflows front, but the dispersion between returns across the sector has been at its widest for a number of years. This cou...
Financial planning
In the latest outcome of its investigation, ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Commonwealth Financial Planning employee Joe Chan. ...
People & Products
Adrian McGarva, a fellow at the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, has been appointed a principal at independent financial services firm Professional Financial Services...
Financial planning
New York-based specialist company MSCI Inc has launched the Barra Australia Equity Model (AUE4) to help drive returns in the Australian equity market....
Financial planning
APRA has warned banks about ensuring cost-cutting does not result in unintended consequences....
Funds management
Schroder Investment Management will keep wearing its crown for at least another year after the company took out the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year title...
Financial planning
Although financial planners are often told it is cheaper to be the authorised representative of a major licensee, that is not necessarily the case, according to Pathway L...
Funds management
The market volatility that characterised much of 2011 proved a key decider in the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year global equities long/short category, wi...
People & Products
TAL Limited has announced the appointment of Kent Griffin as chief financial officer....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...