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Eighty-four per cent of Australians earning over $50,000 per year do not have a formal investment plan for the future, with 50 per cent relying on financial media and soc...

Financial planning

The former managing director of Morningstar, Graham Rich, has signed joint venture agreements with Plan-for-Life and Resnik Communications, as part of the role out of his...

Financial planning

Many financial planners are still unaware they could face hefty fines or even jail terms for not providing ‘wholistic, appropriate or reasonable’ advice to their clients ...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has begun a ratings system for master trusts and wrap accounts after today releasing the details of its latest research product, the Master Trust ...

Financial planning

The advice planners provide to clients goes hand in hand when it comes to what planners do with their own super. <caps>FIONA MOORE</caps><b><caps> </caps></b>asked three ...

Financial planning

Australia’s agricultural investment industry has reacted in favour of the recent crackdown by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and the Australian Securities and Investment...

Financial planning

A director of a taxation business in Melbourne has undertaken not to act as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser or hold a proper authority from ...

Financial planning

Consistent outperformance across a range of asset classes was the key to accolades in the multi-sector category of the 2002 Fund Manager of the Year awards....

Financial planning

ANTHONY SERHAN outlines how Assirt judges the Fund Manager of the Year awards....

Editorial

Former managing director and publisher of Morningstar Australia, Graham Rich has resurfaced in the financial services industry with a business venture that will capitalis...

Financial planning

Practice management can mean the difference between having an efficient or sloppy planning business. KATE KACHOR reports on what the industry considers the best and worst...

Financial planning

A former director of the Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, Craig John McKim, has been banned from being involved in the management of a company for 30 years....

Financial planning

Former JB Were private client adviser, partner and deputy manager Robert Fiani has joined the Macquarie Bank team as a director of Macquarie Financial Services....

Financial planning

Recently on a flight, I found myself sitting next to a couple also on their way back home to Airlie Beach, near Mackay. Striking up a conversation, I found they had moved...

Financial planning

Sealcorp will relaunch its flagship master trust in May with the addition of a wrap facility, separately managed accounts and increased rebates on fund manager fees....

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