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Almost two thirds of baby boomers do not have financial plans or have a financial planner with nine out of 10 confident of their own financial knowledge according to a su...

Financial planning

Australian Agribusiness Group (AAG) is set to introduce a fee structure for investors wishing to use its research reports on the agribusiness sector as well as levying fe...

Financial planning

Aurora Funds Management has signed a distribution deal with UBS Investment Bank to take its tax-effective Protected Geared Investment product (PGI) to brokers and financi...

Financial planning

FINANCIAL planners across Australia watched in horror as the mainstream media opened fire on the industry in the wake of the ACA/ASIC shadow shopping survey, alarming man...

Editorial

Past performance is no indicatior of future performance is an oft qouted statement so then why is there any emphasis placed on it by fund managers and financial planners....

Financial planning

Dealer group Garrisons has added Colonial FirstChoice and Perpetual WealthFocus to its platform offering after conducting a review fuelled by adviser concern the Challeng...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has written a submission to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) requesting it use its discretionary power...

Financial planning

Financial Planning Services (Australia) was launched as a national boutique dealer group in June 2001....

Financial planning

JOHN PERRI looks at what has become law recently, and what is around the corner in 2004....

Financial planning

The drop in the number of advisers at Mawson Securities was a deliberate controlled move, chairman Peter Johnson says....

Financial planning

Charter Financial Planning added 57 financial planners to its ranks last year, continuing the steady growth pattern shown over the five year history of this survey....

Financial planning

IWL will roll out its latest VisiPlan offering - version six - over the next few weeks following significant enhancements in terms of straight through processing capabili...

Financial planning

Praemium Portfolio Services and CARM GPS have agreed to integrate their respective business platforms, to streamline and industrialise sales and business processes for fi...

Financial planning

Superannuation fund members are likely to place heavy reliance on financial planners in the event of a full choice of fund regime being implemented in Australia, accordin...

Financial planning

Sealcorp-owned financial planning group Securitor has kicked off a new practice management department after appointing a division head and striking an alliance with pract...

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