Zurich Financial Services' retail team has been given a boost with seven appointments in recent months....
A far reaching recent court judgement is being viewed as a wake-up call for financial planning dealer groups, highlighting the need to keep an eagle eye on their adviser ...
High profile financial planner Garry Avis has joined up with well-known superannuation consultant Robert MC Brown and Darryl Pike to set up Bridgeport Advisers & Asset Ma...
The Managed Investments Act 1998, (MIA) made changes to the regula-tion of managed investment funds with the aim of ensuring greater ac-countability of fund managers to i...
Respected financial planner Ray Griffin has been named as the next chairman of the Financial Planning Association....
AMP's financial planning operations are looking to boost referral business coming from accountants by forming alliances with accounting groups....
1.Name: David Treacher. 2. Job Title: Financial planner. 3. Dealer group: AMP Financial Planning. 4. Age: 41. 5. Qualifications: DFP 1-7 completed, DFP 8 to be compl...
In recent years, there has been no shortage of agricultural schemes, usually with generous tax breaks, to tempt investors. Birds, trees, fruits and plants have all been o...
The Australian life insurance industry is entering a period of legislation-driven change. The past 10 years has been marked as period of restructuring and expense control...
As we approach the first anniversary of the Managed Investment Act (MIA), it is timely to consider its impact. Our prediction that the new regime would be less easy for f...
Thanks, Nick Bruining, for drawing attention to one of the real business issues facing practitioners - that of ongoing remuneration ownership vesting with principals or a...
A recent study has found that financial advisers are less aware of their Y2K than they ought to be. John Desmond outlines the findings of the survey and the impact of the...
An administration product, in isolation, offers a very narrow service to clients. ...
ParaPlanning Professionals, which claims to have pioneered the concept of contract paraplanning in Australia, has opened an office in New South Wales....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...