CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Life/Risk

The insurance losses reported by AMP and RGA reflect pricing for good times and a need to adapt to tough times....

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Financial planning

Planners are already changing their commercial decisions on business acquisitions because of grandfathering issues. ...

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Superannuation

ASFA calls for community involvement in survey to gather views on the future of Australia’s super system....

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Superannuation

SMSF investors are getting younger, according to new data contained in a study undertaken via Macquarie Bank and the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....

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Financial planning

The AFA is working with Treasury to prevent the loss of grandfathering on existing clients when advisers change licensees. ...

Financial planning

Veda has entered into a strategic alliance with NECDL, the company responsible for delivering a national electronic conveyancing solution to the Australian property indus...

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Life/Risk

Cultural shifts over the last few years might have resulted in consumers driving churn, according to an insurance executive....

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Accounting

Countplus has invested $2.15 million from borrowings into Super-IP, taking a 4 per cent stake in the group which produces the SMSF software administration system Class Su...

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Financial planning

The Bennelong Group will expand into the advisory space after taking a controlling interest in Melbourne-based wealth management and advisory firm Carnbrea & Co. ...

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Financial planning

There are divergent views, but Barry Lambert believes licensing may mean planners will have to figure out how to stop accountants from taking their clients....

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Editorial

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

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Financial planning

Recently launched Xpress Super has added Macquarie’s Separately Managed Account (SMA) product Macquarie Personal Portfolio to its platform....

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Funds management

More than half of Australian high net worth (HNW) investors expect global markets to rise over the next year, while cooling their outlook on the domestic front....

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Life/Risk

Some progress appears to be being made towards finding common ground on life/risk sustainability and churn....

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Superannuation

Expert panel advocates finding a concessional caps’ sweet spot and limiting lump sums....

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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