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Macquarie has signed up Spectra Securities Software to provide its financial planners, stock brokers and management team with portfolio management software....

Financial planning

A number of Australia’s premier financial planning groups have added the latest additions of the Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) product range to their recommended lists....

Financial planning

Armed with a preliminary discussion paper from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and some overseas research, it is timely to consider the implications of the ASX’s tent...

Financial planning

At initial meetings, most financial planners at least imply that they will provide ongoing service to their clients. Rob Keavney reckons there is a large body of planners...

Financial planning

The debate over fees and commissions is as old as financial planning itself. Tom Collins asks whether we are arguing over definitions....

Financial planning

Palandri Wines is on target to complete its $30 million UK capital raising and the acquisition of a further Margaret River vineyard, according to executive project direct...

Financial planning

Less than one in four planners from Bleakleys and Advisor Investment Services will make the transition to Partnership Planning under tough new guidelines for the group....

Financial planning

A number of Australia’s premier financial planning groups have added the latest additions of the Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) product range to their recommended lists....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has hit out at the Australian Tax Office over what it says are double standards in regards to Alienation of Personal Services Income (A...

Editorial

Many financial planners have at best dim memories of the major corrections of 1994 and 1987. Rob Keavney believes some of these advisers are putting their clients into hi...

Financial planning

The relationship between financial planners and dealers is under fire. The effects of the upcoming Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) combined with that of the Aliena...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services has written to clients of banned advisers Andy Pal and Anthony Howarth to invite them to consider whether they can claim for lost money from inappr...

Financial planning

Alienation of personal services income is a bomb ticking beneath the financial planning industry. ...

Financial planning

The focus on corporate superannuation is long running and is centred mainly on the complexities involved with branching into it. But as Nicole Szollos discovers it is now...

Financial planning

Nearly three quarters of financial planners are selling or recommending life and risk products, according to a survey commissioned by ING....

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