George Liondis

George Liondis

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7 December 2003

Troubled accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford has lost three of its Canberra based advisers to rival Fiducian Portfolio Services....

7 December 2003

Royal and Sun Alliance (R&SA) Financial Services will look to dramatically expand its local distribution capacity after putting months of speculation about its ownership ...

7 December 2003

The Victorian based Australian Financial Services (AFS) dealer group is making a considered push to set up a master trust exclusively for risk insurance products....

24 March 2003

More than one third of Stockford principals have agreed to buy their businesses back from the group’s administrator, after the troubled accounting and financial planning ...

24 March 2003

The Investor Group dealership has struck a deal with the administrators of the troubled Stockford group to buy one of the company’s Melbourne based financial planning bus...

24 March 2003

The credibility of the recent report into the quality of financial planning advice by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consu...

24 March 2003

The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) attempt to set up its own in house professional indemnity (PI) insurance scheme for members has suffered a setback as a result ...

24 March 2003

Australia’s funds management and life insurance groups are failing to live up to the expectations of financial advisers in key performance criteria, a new report claims....

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24 March 2003

The Westpac Bank passed a major landmark in its integration of the BT Financial Group today after it announced the roll out of BT’s wrap platform to its in-house financia...

16 March 2003

The recent ACA/ASIC survey was particularly scathing of the quality of financial planning advice provided by large distributors. George Liondis investigates....

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