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SOME of Australia’s leading investment specialists have come together to call on financial planners to hold their nerve and convince their clients to stay in Australian a...

Financial planning

Advisers are more optimistic than investors that the share market will improve in the next six months and are also likely to allocate twice as much to international equit...

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

Australia’s first Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) product for the retail market, the Asgard SMA for shares offering, was officially launched by Sealcorp Holdings yester...

Financial planning

THE FEDERAL Government has succumbed to concerted industry pressure and agreed to amend the tax laws to remove an anomaly that threatened to ‘double-count’ people’s super...

Financial planning

MORNINGSTAR New Zealand is approaching fund managers with a proposal to move to a quantitative only model for managed funds research....

Financial planning

Just over a year since Suncorp Metway purchased the Australian GIO general insurance business of AMP for $1.24 billion, it has announced a major recruitment of financial ...

Financial planning

ING will approach the board of ANZ in July seeking a substantial capital commitment from its joint venture partner to establish its desired dealer group models and to re-...

Financial planning

The Lumley Life group has announced that it is looking to forge closer ties with financial planning groups in an effort to boost the distribution of its specialist life i...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has questioned the need for a straight through processing service to hit the market, claiming such an offering at this stage would be a case of too l...

Financial planning

Good performance can mean a lot of things, but not necessarily support from financial advisers....

Financial planning

IOOF Funds Management has signed a strategic alliance with an Australian dealer group and rolled out its own back office support network, showing further signs the group ...

Financial planning

The sale of immediate annuity life insurance products have slumped to their lowest level since being made exempt from the social security assets test in 1998, the latest ...

Financial planning

The Norwich Union group has teamed up with Australia’s largest independently owned dealer group, Professional Investment Services (PIS), to distribute its flagship master...

Financial planning

The Count Financial dealer group has added a series of three multi-manager portfolios to the list of recommended investment funds for its network of financial advisers....

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

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