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Financial planning

The float of Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) is scheduled for late September or early October now that an agreement has been reached between all the shareholders of...

Financial planning

US funds management giant Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) has launched its first retail offering into the Australian market via a rebadged product which carries th...

Financial planning

Deutsche Funds Management (DFM) is about to launch what it believes are Australia's first themed international funds....

Financial planning

John Robert Houghton, a former director of Houghton & Associates, last week received a two year jail sentence after pleading guilty to 26 charges of fraudently missapropr...

Financial planning

Up to 5000 existing DIY funds may have to change their structure if they continue with a single trustee who is also the fund’s single member....

Financial planning

Global spending on information technology to attract and keep customers is growing at more than 40 per cent a year and it’s not hard to see why....

Superannuation

Rules regarding membership, compliance and administration of self-managed superannuation funds (SMFs) are well on the way to being clarified....

Financial planning

At least 300 insurance brokers are trading illegally, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

AMP has chosen a new boss for its New Zealand financial services business following general manager Rodney Cooke’s promotion to director of group finance at the group’s U...

Financial planning

If the burgeoning sector evolving around employing and outsourcing paraplanners is to be believed, there’s a gold rush going on. “Good people” are talked of in hushed ton...

Financial planning

The financial planning community strongly supports the introduction of a goods and services tax in Australia, according to a recent survey. ...

Funds management

Several former Norwich executives have launched a new Melbourne-based investment company to offer a retail unit trust dealing in wholesale property trusts....

Financial planning

How much will it cost planners to changeover their back office in order to offer wrap services?...

Financial planning

Proposed changes to the way life insurance companies are taxed will result in higher levels of complexity for the industry and increased costs to policy holders. ...

Financial planning

Australia's biggest companies have had their day on the stock market and investors should be looking to smaller companies for stronger growth....

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