FINANCIAL PLANNERS

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THE ASSOCIATION of Financial Advisers (AFA) has negotiated a deal to find insurance cover for its members through the London-based Lloyds group in order to bypass the wor...

Financial planning

THE FUNDS management joint venture between ING and the ANZ Bank, known as ING Australia, is preparing to launch a new master trust platform....

Financial planning

Financial planners are still in danger of being held accountable for past wrongs and could still face hefty jail terms and fines according to a Queensland lawyer....

Financial planning

The growing reliance of financial planners on financial planning software, back office technology and technology driven investment platforms could leave advisers facing d...

Funds management

Fund managers have thrown their support behind independent research trips with a number set to join a group of planners heading to the US and the UK later this year....

Financial planning

Queensland-based stockbroking business Wilson HTM completely recreated its business in 1996, because it had to. Now six years later, it has bedded down the introduction o...

Financial planning

Would you like to get to know your clients, intimately? As tempting as it sounds, the truth is that most financial planners don’t. Except, that is, for Carolyn Berezovzky...

Financial planning

While the honeymoon is over between financial planners and accountants, the issue of estate planning has forced the two back together, throwing in solicitors for good mea...

Financial planning

Financial planners are still in danger of being held accountable for past wrongs and could still face hefty jail terms and fines according to a Queensland lawyer....

Editorial

An understanding of market movements is essential for financial planners and as ROBERT KEAVNEY writes, taking a longer term view will always reveal the underlying fundame...

Financial planning

The providers of margin lending products could be the next victims from the worsening crisis over professional indemnity insurance for financial planners....

Financial planning

Western Australian credit unions, State West and Health Credit, will merge their financial planning arms as part of a wider merger of the two groups....

Financial planning

SO YOU have built yourself a nice new investment platform and you want financial planners to use it....

Financial planning

The biggest influence on the back office technology provided to financial planners over the last year had nothing to do with bytes, modems or memory....

Financial planning

Alternative investments challenge the very core of investment theory because they open up the debate between relative and absolute returns. As FIONA MOORE reports, it is ...

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