FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

The Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) needs to improve its structure if it is to administer a registration scheme for financial advisers, acco...

Financial planning

Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...

Financial planning

Former Adviser Investment Services (AIS) planners Bill O'Sullivan and Debbie Thompson have decided to venture forth on their own, setting up financial planning group Trin...

Financial planning

Proposals to licence all New Zealand advisers has fallen on silent ears at the country's leading associations, according to New Zealand First consultant, Roly Metge....

Financial planning

Your correspondent's article "Lifestyle launch on despite an ATO notice" (Money Management, April 29) could be seen as another example of front page sensationalism, but s...

Financial planning

After eleven months of uncertainty, financial advisers now have a clearer indi-cation as to how the changes to the investment rules for superannuation funds, announced in...

Financial planning

Some financial advisers are up in arms at news that St George Bank is withdrawing the Advance Management Instalment Gearing Product (IGP). The bank plans to phase out the...

Financial planning

The New Zealand office of Equitilink has closed its doors after more than 10 years in business....

Financial planning

Financial Services could soon be the latest product line for network marketers similar to those who have reshaped the cosmetics and healthcare industries....

Financial planning

A recent study has found that financial advisers are less aware of their Y2K than they ought to be. John Desmond outlines the findings of the survey and the impact of the...

Financial planning

The overwhelming majority of financial advisers know very little about wrap accounts....

Financial planning

Regulators are set to apply the heat to financial planning groups and broking groups on Y2K readiness, following apparent apathy over the problem....

Financial planning

Former Adviser Investment Services (AIS) planners Bill O'Sullivan and Debbie Thompson have decided to venture forth on their own, setting up financial plan-ning group Tri...

Financial planning

Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...

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