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Superannuation fund administrator CitiStreet Australia has struck a deal with global consulting group Watson Wyatt with the pair signing a ‘long-term’ agreement....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has reaffirmed its ongoing crusade against schemes illegally promoting the early release of superannuation by announc...
Financial planning
Tribeca Learning’s education mandates with the Financial Planning Association and the Australian Stock Exchange have contributed to an improvement in revenue of more than...
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Australian Unity has moved quickly by appointing former Perpetual private clients manager David Bryant as head of its funds management division and filling the role of so...
Financial planning
The Australian Stock Exchange has been given a clean bill of health by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in its latest annual assessment of the ...
Editorial
SMA International, a soon-to-launch individually managed account (IMA) firm, is aiming to give the IMA market a much needed shot in the arm by offering wrap platforms and...
Financial planning
Financial planners and other financial services providers who sell products over the phone or in other ‘time critical’ situations have had their compliance burden reduced...
Financial planning
The financial services industry has been challenged to regain consumer and regulator trust by lifting the standard of its ongoing education and professional development c...
Financial planning
The Australian Democrats have moved quickly to outline elements of their superannuation policy ahead of next month’s Federal election by announcing a five point plan whic...
Financial planning
Aon Australia has moved to streamline its platform approach, announcing BT Financial Group’s Wrap service and Asgard's eWRAP and adviserNET products as the new core platf...
Financial planning
AMP director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich will stand down as Financial Planning Association chairman, making way for chair-elect Kathryn Greiner - the first...
Financial planning
The desktop of the financial planner has become a crowded place as portfolio modelling, client management and planning and compliance tools each stake their claim for a p...
Financial planning
Referrals used to be managed on an ad hoc, manual basis by planners. Now one technology company is automating the process. John Wilkinson investigates....
Financial planning
Advisers are looking for simple software, but their needs are often more sophisticated, writes John Wilkinson....
Financial planning
The perfect financial planning software will do just about everything, except make the coffee. But even with rapid development we’re not quite there yet, as Freya Purnell...
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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...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...