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Like so many other independent dealer groups, Accent Investment Services evolved out of a larger Melbourne-based organisation. It obtained its own licence in 1996. Accent...

Financial planning

Sealcorp Holdings has lured technical pundit Tim Gunning away from Deutsche Bank as part of a drive to boost its paraplanning outsourcing activities....

Financial planning

Two thousand years ago when the money lenders in Israel had finished celebrating the start of a new Millennium and were considering their business plans, few of them woul...

Financial planning

The first database to include all players in the financial services industry, including advisers and dealer groups could soon become a reality....

Financial planning

This is supposed to be the information age, but no one has told the financial planning industry. This has to be the industry that has the least information available abou...

Financial planning

Master trust operators may be slugged with a price hike under a recently released policy from Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Law firm Freehill H...

Financial planning

A new training and educational advisory body has been established by the Austra-lian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

The Mawson Group will this year offer its advisers the chance of an equity stake in the group, according to chairman Peter Johnson....

Financial planning

There’s a big supply and demand problem in financial planning, according to one industry figure....

Accounting

Money Management’s inaugural Top 100 dealer survey has proved what many in the industry have long suspected – that accountants are fast gaining a foothold in the industry...

Financial planning

Providing incidental financial planning advice in the course of normal accounting practice has emerged as the sleeping giant of the CLERP 6 proposals....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is to audit financial planning groups to en-sure its members adhere to the association's disclosure regime....

Financial planning

From a rocky start six years ago, the Colonial Partners is paying dividends for its parent group. John Wilkinson traces the trailblazing path left by one of the first pla...

Financial planning

IRD casts eyes over life companies The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) is auditing several life companies as its review of the life insurance taxation regime steps up a g...

Financial planning

Associated Planners grew its turnover by 25 per cent to $37.5 million in the finan-cial year to end June 1999....

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