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Consumer group Choice is lobbying the Government to ban what it describes as "perverse incentives" paid to financial advisers that serve to make the advice consumers rece...

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Services (PIS) chief executive Robbie Bennetts has emphasised the value of advice from financial planners, criticising scare campaigns from indust...

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Financial planning

Plan B's acquisition of Strategic Financial Management has delivered a positive look to the Group's March quarter but underlying FUM has declined further....

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Financial planning

New research confirms a one-size-fits-all remuneration model is not suited to the financial planning industry and that an hourly rate regime can promote inefficiency....

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Financial planning

Taxation expert warns planners about conflicts of interest implications if they are involved in transferring retirement funds from overseas into products that generate co...

Financial planning

DAVID FOX takes a look at how the adviser’s role will be significantly different in the successful advice business of the future....

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Financial planning

FUM falls across the board in 2008....

Financial planning

SMSF software enhanced....

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Financial planning

MATTHEW ESLER considers the role new financial advice technology is playing in shaping recruitment within the financial planning practice....

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Financial planning

Difficult conditions hit boutique's FUMA....

Financial planning

Further acquisitions planned later in the year....

Financial planning

Industry funds claim commissions have more impact in bad markets....

Financial planning

Focus on the benefits that actually flow to clients from financial advice to combat the ‘compare the pair’ campaign....

Financial planning

Reports declining FUA but asserts positive profitability and positioning....

Financial planning

Declining markets hit Plan B FUMA but Affinity program gains traction....

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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