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AXA has cut the fees on its Summit platform in a move that the company admits is partly due to competitive pricing from ‘lite’ platforms....

Financial planning

The monitoring and supervision of advisers by dealer groups for FSR compliance is “patchy”, according to Tribeca chief operating officer John Prowse....

Financial planning

Financial Planners will face tougher conduct guidelines after a new code of practice was issued today, raising the bar on disclosure and urging advisers to give up commis...

Financial planning

Financial Planners today are happier with the level of service provided by their dealership. More specifically, they are happier with the amount of professional indemnity...

Financial planning

It may be a job to most people, but business development is clearly a labour of love for Natasha Williams....

Financial planning

The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....

Financial planning

The financial planning arm of the HSBC bank has signed the Aviva-owned Navigator master trust as one of only three preferred platforms for its advisers....

Financial planning

A new set of guidelines on conflicts of interest which will impose tougher requirements on advisers than those introduced by the Australian Securities and Investment Comm...

Financial planning

Almost a year since the introduction of the Financial Services Reform, the majority of financial advisers still believe that sorting out practice management issues will b...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would back a push to enshrine its code of conduct on soft dollar payments into legislation - a move that would make the code comp...

Financial planning

Count Financial has bought the planning software already used by most of its advisers, Interact, from IOOF Investment Management after the latter opted to sell the packag...

Financial planning

Findings recently released by AXA Australia and Dexx&r into the level of under-insurance in Australia reveal that Australian women are chronically under-insured....

Financial planning

Controversy over soft dollar payments and conflicts of interest are threatening the financial planning industry. Money Management invited some of the industry’s leaders t...

Financial planning

Financial planning through banks has been regarded as unsophisticated, product-focused and entry level. But, as Jason Spits discovered, the banks are working hard to over...

Financial planning

AXA Australia’s re-run of its Discovery program - a client-list buy back scheme that ran for several weeks in 2003 - has netted 35 new planners and involving some 100,000...

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

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