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Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) new range of multi-manager products has received an less than sterling debut rating from Assirt, and despite some strengths has been award...

Accounting

Lonsdale Financial Group is looking to grow the number of accountancy practices in its framework and to launch software in the second half of this year to help automate t...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry has been called on to play its part in the international fight against terrorism....

Financial planning

The term retail means less now than what it did five years ago....

Financial planning

There is rumblings of a revolution in wholesale funds management, as the sector begins to build a path between itself and retail investors....

Financial planning

Paul Lahiff is a man with rollback on his mind, and it has nothing to do with the GST....

Financial planning

An open letter to: Directors of Institutional Financial Planning Groups;...

Financial planning

In the first week of January ASIC has banned one financial adviser for a year and another two investment advisers for life, reconfirming its commitment in 2002 to protect...

Financial planning

In all noise surrounding the Privacy Act last year, ASIC also released a policy paper outlining the definition of a financial market. Mike Taylor looks at how this will a...

Financial planning

Over the past 12 months the working lives of Australia’s financial planning fraternity has been given a good shakeup and for some, even been turned upside down. The bad n...

Financial planning

Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...

Financial planning

Macquarie financial services has undergone a major re-structure with the division reverting back to a state-by-state approach from a national model, resulting in the depa...

Financial planning

Australia’s largest financial planning group, AMP Financial Planning, has announced a three year plan to radically overhaul its remuneration policy in what is being seen ...

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Consumer Protection special adviser Annette Donselaar will depart the watchdog early next year to take on a jo...

Financial planning

Financial services industry educators are heading for showdown with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) after the latter announced large scale changes to the way the...

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