FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will appoint a statutory approved trustees (SAT) to thousands of DIY super funds as new regulations come into force....

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services has added an interactive e-mail component to its web site but has stated it will not use the service to provide advice or sell products....

Financial planning

Industry research tells us that more and more people are turning to financial planners – but what do clients really think of their advisers? David Chaplin investigates....

Financial planning

Financial Planners have rightly focused on professionalism, but too many have not paid enough attention to the operations side of their businesses. Anyone in finance not ...

Financial planning

What makes Australia’s top planners so successful? The answer, as Gerard Doherty discovered, lies partly in successful client management....

Financial planning

Lifespan Financial Planning has signed an agreement to use Sanford’s Virtual Broker internet service which provides a branded stockbroking service to clients....

Financial planning

Australia's first listed accountancy and financial services group Harts Australasia has purchased leading trustee and portfolio management group Cardinal Financial Securi...

Superannuation

Zurich Financial Services has added an interactive e-mail component to its web site but has stated it will not use the service to provide advice or sell products. Superan...

Financial planning

An administrator has been appointed to the Victorian Soho Lemon Management scheme. Director Peter Russell-Clarke says he requested an administrator be appointed to protec...

Financial planning

Continuing Tax Office crack-downs on self employed and sub contractors will have a marked impact on self employed service providers such as financial planners this financ...

Financial planning

Only one in 50 financial planners does not use the Internet for their business, according to a recent survey....

Financial planning

Financial planners will need to change the way they offer advice on tax issues as they relate to investments....

Financial planning

The Strategist Group recently sat down and documented more than 100 different strategies that financial planners may implement when dealing with clients that have put in ...

Accounting

Lawyers and accountants will not be subject to the same licensing requirements as financial planners if the findings of the Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations and ...

Financial planning

Challenger International has closed its new retail biotech fund oversubscribed with the fund exceeding the company’s target of $40 million....

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