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ASIC is still closely monitoring the use of financial planning dealer groups’ approved product lists to ensure they do not give rise to investment advice that is given wi...

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Zurich Financial Services has introduced a new online application service for its Ezicover life insurance product aimed at giving dealer groups and other distribution par...

Financial planning

Property fund managers need to boost their knowledge of how financial planners think if they are to achieve good distribution of their products, a new report has found....

Financial planning

Laing Advisory has launched a subscriptions-based online life risk insurance resource service targeted at both investment planners and risk advisers....

Financial planning

In an effort to demystify life insurance, Zurich has thrown away traditional thought patterns and by the end of the year will have launched a new product designed to revo...

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Demands for greater transparency in financial planning is depriving lower income groups of access to financial advice, a leading financial services executive has argued....

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Boutique dealers will need to have more than 100 advisers to remain profitable, according to a new costs and revenue survey of financial planning dealer groups....

Financial planning

While financial planning software hardly sounds like an area you would expect to find participants slugging it out, that’s exactly what is happening. It’s proving to be a...

Financial planning

While the planning software market appears to have settled down into something akin to trench warfare, there are still some players making forays into open territory....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services (PIS) is considering whether to settle with clients who lost money in Westpoint’s failed investment schemes rather than face court, acco...

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