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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has reminded planners that there is one week left to enrol in the current semester's CFP intake, adding that enrolment numbers continue...

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Funds management

With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...

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Financial planning

Matthew Rowe will stay on as chairman of the Financial Planning Association board for another two-year term until November 2014....

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Financial planning

BlackRock announced this week that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Swiss Re Private Equity Partners AG - the European private equity and infrastruct...

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Financial planning

Rountable questions why the Government takes so long on financial services legislation but acts with speed in imposing substantially higher levies....

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People & Products

First State Investments has appointed two new executives to take charge of responsible investing and improve ESG....

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Superannuation

The AIST will be lodging a further submission with the Productivity Commission reinforcing that default superannuation funds must be 'fit for purpose'....

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Superannuation

Institute of Chartered Accountants CEO Lee White sees challenges and positives in the new limited licensing regime replacing the accountants' exemption....

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Superannuation

SPAA concerned about the degree to which SMSFs will be levied on SuperStream....

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Financial planning

ASIC has formed an agreement with New Zealand's FMA which will allow advisers trained in Australia to have their qualifications recognised in New Zealand and vice versa....

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Financial planning

Count Financial has joined with BT Wrap today to announce the two companies have renewed their distribution agreement....

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Financial planning

Avenue Capital Management's 30 financial advisers across 15 practices will become authorised representatives of IOOF's Lonsdale Financial Group, IOOF has announced....

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People & Products

Australian Financial Services has appointed Danielle Nugent as regional manager for Victoria and Tasmania....

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Superannuation

The Productivity Commission's core recommendations on default funds will open up the sector to more players and reduce the primacy of industry super funds....

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has criticised a deal between the Government and the Greens impacting withholding tax arrangements on MITs....

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