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People & Products

Zurich Financial Services' retail team has been given a boost with seven appointments in recent months....

Financial planning

Far from being a threat to advisers, those financial service providers with a strong track record in the direct business often bring the same levels of service to adviser...

Financial planning

Regulators are set to apply the heat to financial planning groups and broking groups on Y2K readiness, following apparent apathy over the problem....

Financial planning

Australian financial planners, and the research houses they rely on, come out "streets ahead" of their British and American counterparts, according to participants on the...

Funds management

1st: Colonial First State 2nd: IOOF Group 3rd: State Super Financial Services...

Life/Risk

Difficulties in matching product features with client needs in complex areas of risk coverage like trauma mean advisers should seek specialist alliances, writes Pauline F...

Financial planning

One of the keys to growing your business without sacrificing your personal life is to provide a wider range of services to fewer clients, writes Robert Ossey....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

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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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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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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