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All Standard & Poor's ASX indices will move to a ‘free float’ model from October 1 this year to reduce portfolio turnover and increase portfolio stability, it was confirm...

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St George margin lending has developed a security driven Web site to help make financial planners margin lending experts and to develop their businesses....

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AustChoice Financial Services is examining its future direction after managing director Roger Gumley confirmed it had been approached by a number of groups offering to ac...

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<i>Money Management</i><i>’</i><i>s</i> ‘Rating the Raters’ survey featured in this edition began to generate a lot of interest even before the last words had been writte...

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<i>Money Management</i><i>’</i><i>s </i>‘Rating the Raters’ survey was carried out in conjunction with Tom Collins from the Tom Collins Consultancy....

Financial planning

Compared to their UK counterparts, local planners have set themselves up for a brighter future and have responded well to change, according to GERARD DOHERTY and MICHAEL ...

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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has failed in its attempt to include the term ‘financial planner’ in the list of restricted words and expressions in the Financia...

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Macquarie Financial Services is in the middle of an extensive overhaul of its stock broking business that will see the group provide a full service broking division by la...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to calls by financial planners to recognise pre-1995 training, announcing yesterday it would acc...

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<caps>As the</caps> deadline for the long heralded new Financial Services Reform (FSR) gets closer, much activity is taking place....

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CPA Australia will host its annual planning conference next week in Sydney. At that time, key note speaker Bob Veres will argue that planning has to evolve alongside the ...

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Bridges Financial Services has made two appointments to expand its business development team....

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MLC plans to bring together its two investment platforms, MasterKey and Flexiplan, in a bid to enhance the product offering of both product in the areas of client service...

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Financial services company Snowball Group has entered a deal to acquire financial planning and accountancy group Investment Taxation Specialists (ITS), a move which will ...

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Financial planners are unhappy with the service they receive from financial service providers, notably in areas of staff helpfulness and underwriting new business, a rece...

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