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Financial planning

The former chairman of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ray Griffin, has decided to leave the high profile Gunther Doyle Griffin planning group....

Financial planning

IWL has struck a deal to boost its stake in online broking group Sanford, moving up from around 5 per cent to nearly 10 per cent with options to further increase the stak...

Financial planning

Peter Polson will be retiring from his post of head of the Commonwealth Bank’s investment and insurance sales division at the end of next week....

Funds management

Investment consultant Dominic McCormick has linked up with the European based Gottex group to launch a new boutique funds management organisation....

Financial planning

The recently appointed head of AMP, Andrew Mohl has wasted no time in giving the company a shake-up by moving “quickly to reform” the giant life and financial services co...

Financial planning

Sealcorp Holdings has announced that it has sold off the Wealthpoint name and fully reabsorbed Assirt Research bringing the ownership of the latter full circle after it w...

Financial planning

First State Investments (UK) Ltd, the UK investment arm of Colonial First State Investments Group, has entered into an agreement that will see it directly market its own ...

Financial planning

Industry super funds and financial planners are not supposed to mix. But that could change if Frances Magill, the chief executive of the South Australian based Statewide ...

Financial planning

Investors are more pessimistic about the current share market outlook than financial advisers, although both have growing expectations of a bear market, according to the ...

Financial planning

AMP says that it has replaced share options for its executives with a new ‘Performance Rights’ program which delivers a pre-determined number of AMP shares in three years...

Financial planning

One of the biggest moves in planning this year has been the emergence of Centrestone. SIMON SEGAL reports....

Financial planning

The industry has come out in support of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recommendation that regulations surrounding the use of past performance...

Financial planning

AMP financial planners have reacted positively to the appointment of Andrew Mohl as the permanent chief executive of the financial services giant....

Financial planning

AM Corporation has brought in a consulting firm to help it decide on its next strategic direction which could include putting itself on the market for a suitable buyer....

Financial planning

THE increasingly bitter dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) over financial planning designations has ...

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