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The business management and operating capability of Absolute Capital Limited (ACL) has been assessed as “competent” by research house Assirt....

Financial planning

ROYAL & Sun Alliance (R&SA) gave birth to Guardian Financial Services in November 2001. Not yet 12 months old, the group has already attracted 98 planners and has plans t...

Financial planning

The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....

Financial planning

From its birth only three years ago, Matrix Financial Group has established a successful network of financial advisers. BARBARA MESSER reports....

Financial planning

A business continuation plan will protect the financial interests of both continuing and departing principals, writes ANDREW LOWE....

Financial planning

A NEW business coaching program has seen AXA lift new business inflows from its advisers by 28 per cent....

Financial planning

Tribeca says it has exceeded its financial forecasts by more than 12 per cent, with an earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortisation of $1.6 million, in its r...

Financial planning

The deadline to comply with the minimum standards of Policy Statement (PS) 146 have come and gone and from all accounts the industry has done well with most planners prov...

Financial planning

There is a saying that old advisers never die, they just re-write their life insurance policies....

Financial planning

Invesco Australia today appointed Aaron Finlay to the role of chief financial officer, a week after chief executive Michael Parsons made way for incoming chief Mark Armou...

Financial planning

A new management team at Norwich Union’s funds management arm, Portfolio Partners, could help the fledgling group reverse the problem of rapidly outflowing funds, accordi...

Editorial

Fund of funds investment vehicles continue to gain investor dollars and adviser support as each seek easier ways to invest. However, MARK KNIGHT questions whether the fun...

Financial planning

Indy Singh has built a business based on vision and a fax. BARBARA MESSER spoke with him about his vision and the contents of the fax....

Financial planning

Morningstar has released a review of JBWere’s business and management strengths, and has rated the company with a three out of five, but says it could have been a stronge...

Financial planning

IT IS easy to see both sides of the argument in what could quickly escalate into a full blown legal dispute between the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Assoc...

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