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IFS executive chair Garry Weaven has called for independent research on a selection of superannuation fund members to show what fees they are paying and how their fund is...

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Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Jeffrey Lucy, has urged the Financial Planning Association to put in place its own disciplinary proc...

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Financial planning

ANZ has strengthened its operational presence in China with the signing of an agreement to purchase 19 per cent of the Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank...

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Australian Unity members have voted overwhelmingly to define how a vote on a demutualisation proposition would be handled in the future....

Financial planning

Industry Fund Services chairman Garry Weaven has welcomed a new advertising campaign by the Financial Planning Association for inadvertently spruiking the case for indust...

Financial planning

Suncorp-Metway and Promina Group have confirmed they have entered into a merger implementation agreement that will see Suncorp purchase the whole of Promina for a price o...

Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, John Laker, has argued that recent efforts to harmonise arrangements with the other financial services reg...

Financial planning

The woman ousted earlier this year as Perth Chapter chairman of the Financial Planning Association, Julie Matheson, has won election to the national board of the FPA....

Financial planning

Research showing that 69 per cent of self-employed or small-business people have no income protection has prompted Asteron to upgrade its life insurance and Wealthstar pr...

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A total of 15 members of the Financial Planning Association have been nominated to fill four voting member board directorships....

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Hanover’s reported NZ$105 million after tax profit for the 2005-06 financial year suggests the New Zealand-based financial institution’s increasing emphasis on the Austra...

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