AMP FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning appears to have paid a price for the enforceable undertaking it entered into with ASIC in July, with a reduction in net cashflows over the period....

Financial planning

Corporate superannuation has emerged as a stand-out performer for AMP in its half-year results with the big financial services house announcing a 220 per cent increase in...

Financial planning

In the next step in the transformation of its financial planning business, AMP Financial Services has split its back office operations and services from its financial pla...

Financial planning

ING has expanded its product team to fast track the development of planned new products based principally around its OneAnswer master trust offering....

Editorial

The 2005 full year results for AMP have shown a 24 per cent increase in underlying contributions, the organisation’s main profitability measure which removes investment m...

Financial planning

Australian couples will now be able to split their superannuation contributions after January 1, 2006, with legislation ratifying the move passed by the Senate....

Superannuation

The latest Income and Wealth Report on labour force statistics produced by AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling has shown premature retirement fo...

Financial planning

A recent Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) industry forum heard compelling evidence as to why product rationalisation is an issue that will increasingl...

Financial planning

Increasing inflows through financial planners will play a vital role as AMP attempts to double in size over the next five years, chief executive Andrew Mohl said today....

Financial planning

Older Australians and those more educated about super choice are more likely to stay in their existing fund when the new regime is introduced, while the less informed are...

Financial planning

The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...

Editorial

Insurance and wealth management giant AMP today dished out a $750 million booty to long-suffering shareholders, having posted a consolidated bottom line profit of close t...

Financial planning

In any situation, humans have a natural tendency to take sides and look for someone, or something, to blame when we hear some alarming or bad news....

Financial planning

State Governments have been called on to extend the scope of ‘choice of fund’ to cover all employees and not just those covered under Federal Awards, with one of Australi...

Financial planning

The average Australian household now spends 2.3 per cent more each week than it receives in income, according to the latest AMP/Natsem Income and Wealth Report....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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