CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Financial planners should be licensed under the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) like any other industry that provides limited or other tax agent services, according to the ...

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Holdings will soon join the likes of competitors Count Financial and WHK, becoming a listed entity via its merger with Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

The possibility of a single professional association arose during several sessions at the Financial Planning Association (FPA) national conference, one of which included ...

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Financial planning

WHK Horwath to take on global branding of Crowe Horwath in 2011....

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association's move towards professionalism could turn out to be very costly for the organisation, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

QIC will acquire Queensland Motorways Limited from the Queensland Government....

Financial planning

The limited nature of the adviser/client relationship with respect to intra-fund advice may make it difficult to impose a uniform interpretation of fiduciary duty, accord...

Financial planning

The Board of the Financial Planning Association has proposed significant changes to the make-up of the association, which would see individual financial planners given pr...

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Financial planning

A strong flow of new business has delivered a solid result to Tower Australia Limited....

Financial planning

The AFA has moved to the business planning stage of a pro-advice advertising campaign on the back of strong financial support from members....

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Financial planning

IOOF chief Chris Kelaher says the company remains acquisitive, describing its play for AXA’s North as opportunistic, not strategic....

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Superannuation

New Financial Services Council research has revealed the degree to which Australia’s retirement savings gap has widened....

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Financial planning

J.P. Morgan Treasury & Securities Services has completed a migration of direct and master custody clients from ANZ Custodian Services less than a year after its acqui...

Editorial

Regulators perpetually struggle to create a healthy environment for the provision of financial advice, however, Robert Keavney identifies several areas where they have mi...

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Financial planning

The investment research team at ANZ-owned RI Advice Group, led by Dinyar Irani, is leaving to set up a portfolio construction company in partnership with Ray Miles' Fortn...

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