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The Financial Planning Association’s National Compliance Committee and Professional Standards National Advisory Committee chairman James Doogue will step down from the po...

Financial planning

Life advisers are still a major force in planning and despite the impact of industry change their numbers have not declined. Simon Segal examines who held fast in the pas...

Financial planning

The introduction of new privacy rules in December still holds uncertainty for parts of the industry, as ground rules are yet to be laid. Mike Taylor looks at the effects ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is planning to change its membership structure to recognise paraplanners and other financial services industry professionals as a...

Financial planning

A round up of the latest events in the retail financial services business....

Financial planning

The investment watchdog will not stand in the way of any financial planning group or master trust operator who charges fund managers a fee to appear on their recommended ...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group’s uneasy relationship with master trusts and wraps has taken another turn with news it is to offer its wrap service directly to advisers for the first ...

Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) will alter the landscape in which agribusiness has to work. John Wilkinson reports on how the new rules will impact this investm...

People & Products

Well known financial planning figure Gwen Fletcher has been confirmed as the chair of the board and president of the newly formed Association of Financial Service Educato...

Financial planning

Fierce competition has not stopped advisers in the US from sometimes pooling their talents, and even resources, in search of new and potentially profitable synergies....

Financial planning

Paraplanning Professionals has been purchased by Tribeca, the parent of financial planning training group IntegraTec, for more than $2 million in cash and shares, as part...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group will offer its wrap service directly to advisers for the first time under the banner of the BT Wrap....

Financial planning

The financial services industry has been given an extra six months to prepare for the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), after a starting date of 11 March, 2002, was ...

Financial planning

Management software specialist IQMS believes it has released the first attempt by a software provider to tackle the complete compliance burden associated with the Financi...

Financial planning

Lifespan is about to unveil what it believes is Australia’s first fully Web-based financial planning system. Nicole Szollos reports on a dealer group on the verge of a ma...

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