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Financial planning

24 October 2005

Financial planners working with the AMP Financial Planning network will now have access to the Mercer IS Super service, giving them access to details covering more than 1...

Financial planning

24 October 2005

FPA ad campaign ‘bad advice’ says Weaven

Industry superannuation funds figurehead Gary Weaven has used superannuation fund performance data to take a swipe at the FPA’s recently launched Value of Advice Campaign...

Financial planning

23 October 2005

Portfolio Partners forms responsible alliance

Fund manager Portfolio Partners is the latest investment company to get more serious about going green, having signed a research partnership with the Sustainable Investme...

Financial planning

20 October 2005

Warnings intensify on equity release as company fails

The placement of a Victorian vendor of equity release products into voluntary administration on Monday has intensified warnings to retirees to take extreme care before bu...

Financial planning

20 October 2005

Ex-Macquarie execs launch Next

A new private equity firm created by three breakaway Macquarie Bank staff, Next Capital, has launched onto the alternative assets scene with a $265 million private equity...

Financial planning

20 October 2005

Warning issued on equity release products

With the value of the reverse mortgage market tipped to skyrocket to be worth $7 billion, an industry association has warned investors to beware of substandard products a...

Financial planning

20 October 2005

FSR refinements: more headaches for planners

Federal Government moves to cut the compliance burden on the financial planning industry could backfire, creating more questions than answers for advisers....

Financial planning

20 October 2005

FPA unveils TV ads

The star of the FPA’s three new 30 second television commercials is a middle aged man with a mullet, in a bad jumper who goes by the name Dazza....

Financial planning

20 October 2005

150,000 people hit in ING unit price bungles

150,000 of fund manager ING Australia’s clients are to be reimbursed an average of just under $100 each after the discovery of unit pricing errors in their life insurance...

Funds management

20 October 2005

CFS Aussie equities funds downgraded

Research house Standard & Poor’s has finally finished its assessment of the new faces in charge of building most of Colonial First State’s Australian Equities funds, and ...