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XPLAN Technology has launched a full suite of financial planning tools based entirely on the Internet, making it the second group to do so after IWL placed part of its ma...

Financial planning

The directors of Permanent Trustees Company and the Trust Company of Australia have announced they have agreed to a merger of the two groups creating a single entity with...

Financial planning

A former securities representative has been banned for life from the securities industry by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for transferring c...

Financial planning

TECHNOLOGY firm Avanteos has enhanced its back-office wealth management software suite with a feature that helps financial planners generate personalised investment strat...

Editorial

Hedge funds have done well in terms of both performance and distribution, but they are yet to be universally accepted on master trust menus. FIONA MOORE reports....

Financial planning

The professional indemnity crisis is hitting the financial services industry hard. GEORGE LIONDIS investigates what planners and dealer groups are up against....

Financial planning

Independent, small planning businesses and dealer groups have asked for a clearer set of compliance processes under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA), removing wha...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has signed a heads of agreement with fund administration software provider, InfoComp, as part of its bid to launch its much awaited un...

Financial planning

THE ASSOCIATION of Financial Advisers (AFA) has negotiated a deal to find insurance cover for its members through the London-based Lloyds group in order to bypass the wor...

Life/Risk

American International Assurance (Australia) (AIA) launched Women’s SmartCover, a female crisis assistance benefit, this month. This introduction of a targeted women’s pr...

Financial planning

Queensland-based stockbroking business Wilson HTM completely recreated its business in 1996, because it had to. Now six years later, it has bedded down the introduction o...

Financial planning

WHILE growth for Trinity Financial Services may have slowed in the past 12 months, the group has managed to achieve 40 per cent growth per annum for the past four years, ...

Financial planning

ASSIRT and Asgard will form a closer relationship in the future following the appointment of Caroline Saunders to oversee Assirt’s funds research business in addition to ...

Financial planning

The majority of high-net worth individuals reject the financial planning qualifications available from Australia’s major professional associations when it comes to choosi...

Financial planning

INVESTOR Security Group (ISG) owner and director Robert Keavney has teamed up with Malcolm Turnbull to launch a new planning group aimed at the high-net-worth end of the ...

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