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Financial planning

MLC has expanded its technical team and built up support services for financial advisers, with the appointment of Gemma Dale, Peter Hogan and Martin Breckon to the team....

Financial planning

Macquarie Group’s financial planning software provider Coin has acquired the remaining 50 per cent stake in Outplan....

Editorial

Fiducian's Merton Miles explains the main principles financial planners must adhere to if they are to meet the needs of their clients....

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Financial planning

A national advertising campaign to be run by AXA Asia Pacific over the next fortnight seeks to make a silver lining out of the ACCC’s blocking of its proposed marri...

Financial planning

Industry funds push virtue of intra-fund advice over “limousine service” full advice model....

Financial planning

The Rule of Law Institute of Australia has formally called for a judicial inquiry into the coercive powers utilised by Australia’s financial services regulators, in...

Financial planning

The reverse mortgage market has faced a great deal of criticism over the years. Angela Faherty looks at the issues facing the sector and asks whether it can ever shake of...

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Editorial

The fallout from the GFC has shaken consumer confidence in the financial services sector, prompting an increase in direct investments. Janine Mace takes a look at what th...

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Financial planning

Super funds and their service delivery agents are racing to take new intra-fund advice technology to market. ...

People & Products

AMP has appointed seven new people to its IFA Protection team in response to an increase in demand for enhanced risk in the IFA channels....

People & Products

ING Investment Management (INGIM) Australia has appointed Stuart Devlin as its southern region manager. He will be responsible for building the organisation’s prese...

People & Products

Veteran financial adviser John Campbell has been appointed Australian chairperson of the Million Dollar Round Table....

Financial planning

ASIC has succeeded in having the Federal Court overturn an AAT decision lifting a banning order on a Queensland planner....

Financial planning

Continuing volatility is one of the only things going against the top dealer groups at the moment. But they have proved resilient, and nothing is holding them back from i...

Financial planning

Diversifying an advice practice through acquisitions can become an expensive exercise when advisers don't have the expertise to retain the clients they paid for, argues A...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 weeks ago

This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

1 month ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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