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Former sole director of Sonray Capital Markets, Russell Andrew Johnson, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to seven charges last yea...

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Editorial

With post-retirement planning emerging as a major issue in 2014, Andrew Gale argues that there needs to be less focus on products and more focus on advice-based solutions...

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Financial planning

ASFA suggests the development of specialised accreditation for planners providing retirement and post-retirement advice....

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Financial planning

No-one likes a surprise when wrestling with tax and superannuation, and financial planners heading towards the end of financial year seem primed on what is about to chang...

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Financial planning

AXA Investment Managers has picked up a key mandate, announcing that Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA IM's global investment gr...

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Financial planning

Synchron has actioned growing its planner numbers on the basis of ASIC’s no-action approach to grandfathering....

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Financial planning

Legg Mason has recruited Colin Taylor away from JP Morgan to become Director of Sales, based in Melbourne. ...

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Funds management

ASIC begins legal proceedings over failed takeover bid...

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Financial planning

The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...

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Financial planning

Former AustralianSuper chair and now NAB/MLC director receives AIST Trustee Lifetime Achievement Award. ...

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Financial planning

Satisfaction from bank customers is at an 18-year high, but that could be about to change....

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Financial planning

Regulator permanently bans former authorised representative and director of an investment trustee for misleading and deceptive conduct....

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People & Products

Independent investment manager Dalton Nicol Reid has appointed Robert White as its new chief executive officer and head of distribution after Harley Dalton’s departure....

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Financial planning

Business of securities adviser subject to an enforceable undertaking has licence cancelled....

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Financial planning

AIST president and chair of CareSuper, Cate Wood, has been appointed to replace Sandy Grant as chair of CareSuper....

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