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The Snowball Group has declared its intention to purchase Western Pacific Financial Group, which will result in scale benefits for the combined entity and a new level of ...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has banned a former representative of the Lonsdale Financial Group from providing financial services for five years after finding he gave clients...

Financial planning

Recommendation of individually managed accounts by advisers should swell now that the planning industry has thrown off commission trails, the head of an asset management ...

Editorial

The Centro Properties Group has capped off the 2005-06 financial year by reporting a record distributable operating earnings figure of $295.3 million, representing an inc...

Financial planning

The chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Jeffrey Lucy, has reiterated that it will not be imposing its views with respect to the fee-for-serv...

Financial planning

Financial advisers need to minimise the risks associated with their practices in order to realise the highest value for their businesses when looking at succession planni...

Financial planning

Westpac Financial Planning has embarked on a recruitment campaign involving advertising, education, an internal awareness program, and longer-term career path preparatio...

Financial planning

A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has found Australians in general still need to improve their levels of financial liter...

Financial planning

Financial planning company Wealthsure will roll out Coin Software to its financial advisers in a bid to free up more of their time for clients....

Financial planning

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited has succeeded in having its Australian Financial Services licence amended to allow it to provide custody services to m...

Financial planning

AMP Signature Super and Sunsuper Personal have emerged at the top of the list in the Heron Quality Star Ratings launched this week....

Financial planning

Cannex has combined its insurance research and quotation tool with the Statements of Advice preparation tool offered by real services to create an all-in-one insurance de...

Financial planning

Financial Wisdom has increased the size of its dealer group significantly, with a total of 410 financial advisers now under its umbrella....

Financial planning

Federal Tasmanian Liberal Senator John Watson has again asked the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to account for its lack of action in the lead up to the...

Financial planning

A venture aimed at improving access to financial services education has lit up the pathway for budding planners seeking a career in finance....

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

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

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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