AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

Life advisers are still a major force in planning and despite the impact of industry change their numbers have not declined. Simon Segal examines who held fast in the pas...

Financial planning

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

Financial planning

<caps>Major</caps> Singaporean corporates may be eyeing Australia’s telecommunications, airlines and financial services industries, but a band of smaller Australian finan...

Financial planning

Shockwaves from the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York have reached the Australian financial markets, with the Australian All Ordinaries plunging more than fou...

Financial planning

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

Financial planning

The success of MLC, under the ownership of the National Australia Bank (NAB), in courting the Deutsche Financial Planning advisers to join with Godfrey Pembroke is widely...

Financial planning

Globalisation of the Australian financial services industry could take up to 10 years, says McKinsey and Company managing partner John Stuckey....

Financial planning

Chris Smith has left his post as national manager of multi-advisers with Zurich Financial Services to take on the national business manager position at partly owned Zuric...

Financial planning

In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....

Editorial

The success of Credit Suisse and UBS Asset Management in this year’s Money Management Assirt Fund Manager of the Year awards marks a significant turning point for the Aus...

Superannuation

The Australian financial services industry is a ‘soft target’ for regulation and the system is causing a continual drop in the number of professionals, says Million Dolla...

Financial planning

Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

Financial planning

Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

Financial planning

Mortgage broking wholesaler Australian Finance Group (AFG) is considering listing on the Australian Stock Exchange to capitalise on the explosive growth in the mortgage b...

Financial planning

West Australian financial services group Plan B is remaining tight-lipped about expansion plans into the eastern states....

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

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

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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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