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Financial planning

22 Oct

CARM unveils investor modelling system

Financial planning business management group Customer Acquisition and Retention Management (CARM) formally launched its web-based Guided Planning System (GPS) today....

Financial planning

22 Oct

Lonsdale and brokers team up in new venture

Lonsdale Financial Group is aligning itself with general life insurance brokers in setting up a number of financial planning practices, which through a process of referra...

Financial planning

21 Oct

Associations march on Canberra

Pressure is mounting on the Federal Government to amend elements of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) following the unprecedented pooling of industry lobbying powe...

Financial planning

20 Oct

ACCC denies NAB/AMP merger talk

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has scotched media reports today that National Australia Bank (NAB) has approached it regarding a possible takeo...

Financial planning

20 Oct

Associated Planners’ Asian push caught in gridlock

Associated Planners Financial Services’ (APFS) expansion into Asia is close to derailment due to a gridlock in negotiations between it and the Singaporean group it was to...

Life/Risk

20 Oct

Offshore PI insurance not worth the paper...

Financial planners are facing alarming personal liability risks despite having professional indemnity (PI) cover due to an influx of unauthorised foreign insurers accessi...

Financial planning

20 Oct

Perpetual set for expansion on back of steady results

Perpetual Trustees is looking to bolster its position within the Australian funds management industry through organic growth and a series of joint ventures and acquisitio...

Financial planning

20 Oct

Monitor finds grass is not always greener

AXA’s Summit master trust has been slammed by disgruntled advisers of financial planning group Monitor Money, with many regretting the decision to roll the Assure wrap se...

Financial planning

19 Oct

Life houses seek more from risk raters

Risk raters have been given a serve over the quality of their research by life houses and, as Craig Phillips reports, questions have been raised in the areas of transpare...

Financial planning

15 Oct

Tribeca benefits from stringent regulation

Financial services training and education provider Tribeca Corporation has posted strong revenue growth for the September quarter on the back of the rising education and ...