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Financial planning

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has exited the financial planning arena, selling its Clearview business to MBF Australia for around $220 million plus an additional earn-o...

Financial planning

The Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) has hit out at the funds management and financial planning industry in Australia, stating it is “characterised by structural c...

Financial planning

AMP has confirmed that it is willing to review its investment platform strategy as part of a bid to rejuvenate its wealth management business under new chief executive An...

Financial planning

It is not every financial planner who can count a meeting with the Prime Minister as a career highlight....

Financial planning

Troubled accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford has lost three of its Canberra based advisers to rival Fiducian Portfolio Services....

Financial planning

It appears that employees within the Australian financial services industry can breathe easier after the release of the latest quarterly TMP Worldwide Job Index, though t...

Financial planning

The number of complaint schemes operating in the industry is set to shrink. John Wilkinson reports from the inaugural Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) confere...

Financial planning

The revolving door is never far from financial services. Jason Spits takes a look at who left, who joined and who rose one more rung on the ladder....

Editorial

The research market has been a busy area of financial services over the last 12 months particularly as a market of five players – IWL, Assirt, Morningstar, Lonsec and van...

People & Products

Morningstar Research is on the verge of naming a new associate director of research but has at the same time announced the redundancy of three research analysts from the ...

Financial planning

Ipac Securities has launched iAccess, a tailored version of the AXA’s Summit wrap platform which will be available to ipac advisers and related third parties....

Financial planning

The Federal Government is undertaking to release within two weeks the draft regulations and operating standards which will apply to the licensing of superannuation truste...

Financial planning

Asset consultants Intech Financial Services have announced the appointment of former Mercer Asia Pacific chairman and chief executive Bruce Cook as a director....

Funds management

Macquarie Direct Property has launched a commercial property syndicate based on its conviction the sector is on the verge of rebounding strongly from a 30 year low....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has signalled it will maintain its relationship with funds management partner, Putnam Investments, despite daily monitoring of the US-based manager in ...

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