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Financial planning

13 Aug

It has been six months since chief executive officer Kerrie Kelly began the structural makeover of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and at last count the number o...

Financial planning

13 Aug

FICS unveils new conciliation strategy

The Financial Industry Complaints Service has launched a new alternative conciliation system and appointed two full-time panel chairs in response to a jump in the number ...

Financial planning

13 Aug

Tower offers risk tracking technology

Tower Australia has rolled out an online medical tracking tool for its risk advisers and has also struck a deal with Australian Income Protection to offer group insurance...

Financial planning

13 Aug

Single Trans-Tasman market back on radar

The Australian and New Zealand governments have commissioned a new study to determine relevant issues of competition and consumer protection as part of their ongoing plan...

Financial planning

12 Aug

Aurora sets sail with the wind at its back

Aurora is heading into new territory with its focus on the risk and superannuation advice market. Rebecca Evans reports....

Financial planning

12 Aug

Reinventing the Rivkins

Australia’s most public example of succession planning Jordan Rivkin, talks to Rebecca Evans about his new interest towards long-term investment propositions and the fina...

Financial planning

12 Aug

Govt says laundering reforms will not be costly

The Federal Government has reassured the industry that its shake up of the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (FTRA), to be drafted this week, will not send the funds...

Financial planning

12 Aug

Pre-election super splitting sanctioned

Superannuation contribution splitting legislation is set to be pushed through parliament next month, despite opposition from sectors of the financial services industry an...

People & Products

11 Aug

Deutsche confirms new head of retail

Deutsche Asset Management has appointed its acting head of retail distribution Alan Miller formally into the role five months after the departure of Bruce Murphy, who lef...

Financial planning

11 Aug

ALP refutes defined benefit restrictions

The Federal Government has been accused of applying a “sledgehammer approach to regulation” after Opposition Minister for Retirement Incomes and Savings Senator Nick Sher...