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Simon O’Regan has been named as the replacement for William M Mercer chief executive Bruce Cook who vacates the top job after more than 16 years. ...

Financial planning

</B>Tower Life has committed to paying nearly $250,000 to 42 families previously denied claims on a funeral plan product, following an Australian Securities and Investmen...

Financial planning

It is no coincidence that the new Financial Planning Association chairman is also one of Australia’s top planners. Nicole Szollos explores the new directions John Hewison...

Financial planning

Inaugural president of the Financial Planning Association Bernie Walshe has been awarded life membership of the FPA....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will pay board members $290,000 in directors’ fees during the next year. ...

Financial planning

New Zealand-based Tower concedes it will eventually move its headquarters to Australia, home to more than 70 per cent of its revenue and about half its shareholders....

Financial planning

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has put its weight behind the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) national compliance program. ...

Financial planning

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has put its weight behind the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) national compliance program. ...

Financial planning

The Certified Financial Planner designation is about to undergo one of the biggest changes in its 23 year history. Stuart Engel reports on the struggle to wrestle the CFP...

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A year as chairman of the FPA is a year full of activity. Indeed it is year full of activity, much of which is propelled by change. And it is change that has moved from t...

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Nick Bruining offers some invaluable advice for surviving this year’s FPA Convention in Melbourne....

Financial planning

The four finalists in this years Money Management’s Financial Planner of the Year award feature some of the profession’s most respected members....

Financial planning

In what promises to be the biggest and the best National Convention the FPA has ever staged, delegates this week will converge upon the Melbourne Convention Centre for th...

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Two of the biggest names in financial planning have joined forces....

Financial planning

LIFE insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruling....

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