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Agribusiness investment schemes have been gaining greater acceptance with financial planners in recent years. Money Management spoke to a number of advisers and dealer gr...

Editorial

In the past five years, funds under management in the agribusiness sector have grown by as much as 80 per cent. Last year, inflows into the sector topped $1 billion and s...

Financial planning

Advisers attending IOOF professional development days and technical training sessions will be eligible to receive CPD points following the company’s acceptance as a princ...

Financial planning

INGhas signed Xplan to enhance its online financial planning business support tool, Adviser Advantage, to add features that will allow advisers to more easily provide a s...

Financial planning

Focussing on providing services to the adviser and not the licence holder will be the major focus for the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) in 2006, says president ...

Financial planning

Upgrades to Asgard Wealth Solutions’ planning and practice management software will be rolled out to advisers in the last quarter of 2006, the company has announced....

Financial planning

As part of a bold new bid to increase revenue by 30 per cent, advisers not aligned to Count Financial will be rewarded with options in the dealer group if they drive new ...

Financial planning

Boutique dealer group AAA Financial Group (AAAFG) has expanded its head count to 80 advisers nationally from 10 at the start of the year, and is preparing to launch a mor...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning advisers will charge negotiable upfront fees of $200 to $700 for TurningPoint, while AdvicePlus Solutions’ price will be agreed with clients, accor...

Financial planning

AMP advisers will charge negotiable upfront fees of $200 to $700 for the ‘TurningPoint experience’, while the price for AdvicePlus Solutions will be agreed with the clien...

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning is moving universally onto a fee-for-service remuneration model for its advisers, becoming the first major Australian dealer group to do so officia...

Financial planning

According to Sue Merriman, BT Financial Group’s head of technical, more advisers need to be aware of the importance of beneficiary nominations when creating estate plans ...

Financial planning

Things are looking up for financial advisers, with fewer reporting difficulties finding new clients, less fee pressure than expected being experienced in the wake of incr...

Financial planning

The launch of the Generic Personal Statement (GPS) for risk advisers and their clients has generated some debate, which I think warrants some commentary....

Financial planning

Hopes that the introduction of choice of fund would boost business for financial advisers appear to have been dashed, with a new survey showing the majority of planners w...

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