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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will continue to push for the introduction of choice of superannuation fund legislation after releasing a report showing that 71 ...

Financial planning

ING Investment Management has appointed Grant Bailey to the position of chief executive officer in Australia, taking the place of departing chief executive Michel van Elk...

Superannuation

The Prime Minister, John Howard, has renewed his call for Australians to work longer in order to combat the potential fiscal crisis looming as result of the countries age...

Financial planning

Centrestone Wealth Management, the business created by Robert Keavney, Malcolm Turnbull and Michael Pillemer, has made its first purchase of planners bringing onboard Kei...

Financial planning

Tower Limited has abandoned plans to sell its personal and corporate trustee businesses in Australia and New Zealand and plans to use them as part of a growth strategy, c...

Financial planning

AMP has today flagged a possible $1.2 billion writedown of its troubled United Kingdom Financial Services (UKFS) and AMP International businesses....

Financial planning

The deal between IWL and Sanford was cemented further yesterday with the former increasing its stake in the latter to just under 20 per cent....

Financial planning

Richard Gilbert has a reputation as a highly political animal, a man who revels in the political process of public policy....

Financial planning

Former Commonwealth Bank (CBA) senior executive John Mulcahy has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of Suncorp Metway....

Financial planning

Accounting and financial planning consolidator Stockford has filled one of the vacancies on its troubled board with the appointment of Dan Payne as non-executive director...

Financial planning

Australia’s anti-money laundering agency, Austrac, has taken the step to recognise financial planners as legitimate ‘professionals’....

Financial planning

IWL’s attempt to increase its stake in Perth-based online broking group Sanford continues to be embroiled in controversy, with IWL chief executive Otto Buttula having to ...

Financial planning

FORMER Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph has joined with the former chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Financial planning

One of the major trends of this year has continued unabated with Zurich and Invesco becoming the next financial services groups to cut employee numbers in an effort to dr...

Financial planning

The Sealcorp owned Asgard investment platform has signed its first ever deal to build a badged version of its new wrap account, the eWrap, for a financial planning dealer...

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