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Financial planning

Recruitment – Window of opportunity opens even further

Judging from recent publicity and a sampling of the positions vacant columns, demand and rewards for financial planners and associated support staff is growing strongly. ...

Financial planning

Wallis stocktake: was it value for money?

A little under two years ago, the Wallis inquiry handed down its 700-plus-page stock-take on the financial system. So it’s appropriate to take stock of what has happened ...

Financial planning

Point of View – All signs show we can party like it’s 1999

As we are still in the first month of a new year, it’s appropriate to wish all financial planners a happy and prosperous 1999. However, recent evidence suggests that such...

Financial planning

Stamping out the bug: Planning firms scuttle into action – and count costs – over Y2K

With 1999 already tipped as the year of the millennium bug, companies around the world are scrambling to get ahead of the problem. And some Australian financial planning ...