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The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is pushing for advisers to sign formal “terms of engagement” agreements with their clients as part of its bid to ease the ongoing...

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THE Merrill Lynch Investment Management group commands more loyalty from its customers than all other fund managers, even though it accounts for less than one per cent of...

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FINANCIAL Planners could be forced to show in Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) all the fees and commissions they receive from selling funds management products under ...

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NEXT Financial will become the first non-institutional group in Australia to roll out individually managed accounts (IMAs) and the second to offer them to financial plann...

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Financial planners have more influence over investors than lawyers or bankers when making investment decisions, an Assirt survey of investors has found....

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CPA Australia is clearing the way for its members to go down the path to financial planning in releasing a CD-Rom designed to give accountants a leg-up into the advice in...

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AMP financial planners have reacted positively to the appointment of Andrew Mohl as the permanent chief executive of the financial services giant....

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MELBOURNE-based Kevin Bailey has been rated Australia’s top financial adviser under a new system of ranking planners released by the Adviser Ratings group this week....

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THE BIGGEST risk facing most financial planners is complacency; the unjustified confidence that growth will continue unabated, that their business is virtually fireproof....

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IN THE weeks since Westpac announced the purchase of BT, alongside that of Sagitta, speculation has been rife about who will stay, what jobs they will hold and who will l...

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From its birth only three years ago, Matrix Financial Group has established a successful network of financial advisers. BARBARA MESSER reports....

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Fifteen years is a long time to be doing the same thing but in August this year Money Management entered into its 15th year of providing consistent and regular coverage o...

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My first assignment as a journo on Money Management in 1997 was to cover the launch of BT’s wrap platform. At the time, the industry hadn’t heard of wrap. Which was just ...

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LOOKING back a decade to when I was editing Money Management, I am struck by the similarities with stories running today....

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