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Financial planning

A second financial planning practice has joined the Macquarie-owned dealer group Lachlan Wealth Management, strengthening the dealership’s standing within the financial a...

Financial planning

The continuing trend of investment management firms concentrating on either manufacturing or distribution will create a “new independent advice world”, where financial pl...

Financial planning

Challenger-owned dealer group Genesys Wealth Advisers is looking to Australia’s high school students to find the next generation of financial planners....

Financial planning

Financial planning dealer groups may end up being liable for a portion, if not all of the damages awarded to the investors who are in the process of taking legal action a...

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning will be the first dealer group to pilot a new, online client management solution for financial advisers....

Financial planning

Australia’s biggest dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, has endorsed the Financial Planning Association’s principles on conflicts of interest by forming a taskforce to ...

Financial planning

Lonsdale Financial Group has increased its existing dealer group base to 79 practices and 174 planners by signing up three new planning practices and one risk insurance a...

Financial planning

Remuneration levels, reasonably priced professional indemnity insurance, good training facilities, product research and technical support are the five top criteria financ...

Financial planning

Improved cash earnings and funds under management and administration have delivered record half-yearly results for IOOF, with net profit after tax jumping 64 per cent to ...

Financial planning

Agribusiness investment schemes have been gaining greater acceptance with financial planners in recent years. Money Management spoke to a number of advisers and dealer gr...

Financial planning

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Superannuation

In-house planners with the Commonwealth Bank will be expected to improve their SMSF skills, with Australia’s third largest dealer group signalling its intention to overha...

Financial planning

BT Financial-owned dealer group Magnitude has recruited its first practice, following its launch in August last year....

Financial planning

Sixteen planning practices in the Financial Wisdom network have entered a program of business coaching and consulting through the dealer group’s Enterprise 121 operation,...

Financial planning

RetireInvest chief executive George Haramis has resigned from his post citing family commitments. He will officially depart the head role at the ING owned dealer group in...

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