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The Success Forum Australia 2002 program explores current trends and future directions for financial planning both in Australia and overseas. This year’s convention also ...

Financial planning

Well punters, once again it’s off to Sydney for the big FPA annual nosh up and as usual, Nick Bruining delivers the inside goss on where to be seen and who to avoid....

Financial planning

The Now Financial Services and Inscorp financial planning groups are set to merge creating a combined planning group with about 250 advisers....

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A new study has found 89.2 per cent of financial advisers are either dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied with the level of success they have achieved to date....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have joined forces to warn the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth...

Financial planning

A war of words has begun between three industry bodies over disclosure of commissions on risk products and the viability of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA)....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) will act against individual firms named in a damning report released this week on the quality of financial pl...

Financial planning

Melbourne based financial planning group Glenhurst Corporation will move into the Sydney market after a major actuarial group, boasting $1.3 billion in funds under advice...

Financial planning

Listed financial planning business Investor Group has confirmed that it is considering an acquisition of parts of troubled accounting and financial planning consolidator ...

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The exodus of senior executives from the Sagitta Rothschild group has continued, with the resignation yesterday of the head of the group’s small caps team, David Fleming....

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A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has today revealed it made a $32.8 million payout to a departing senior executive of its Colonial First State funds management arm, at the sam...

Financial planning

Australian Skandia has launched a new product today, Skandia One, which it hopes will further establish Skandia’s position as a major provider in the Australian marketpla...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry will face a wave of criticism after the release today of a damning report on the quality of financial planning advice....

Financial planning

Royal & SunAlliance have restructured its operations ahead of its upcoming float with a number of New Zealand based executives set to leave the group while managing direc...

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