FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Financial planning

Platinum Asset Management has teamed up with the Neilson Foundation to offer a scholarship to undergraduate students majoring in financial planning, FPA has announced....

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Funds management

Planner demand to drive ‘youthful’ ETF sector....

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Editorial

ASIC arguably chose a poor strategy when it sought to reassure consumers about its inaction on matters relating to the Reserve Bank of Australia-related companies, Secure...

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Financial planning

Moving licensees or client books should not trigger an automatic loss of grandfathered revenue, according to financial services lawyer. ...

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Funds management

Financial planners will be able to access funds directly, bypassing platforms, via new execution-only service nearing launch....

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Financial planning

Existing levels of adviser education should be considered a pathway to degree level qualification....

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Editorial

The Financial Services Council caused something of a stir in the financial services industry when, at its annual conference in Brisbane, it announced a policy discussion ...

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Editorial

The Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, has signalled a “son of Wallis” review of the Australian financial system and, as Mike Taylor writes, the industry is already starting ...

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Financial planning

Money Management has opened the nominations for its Financial Planner of the Year award for 2013....

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Financial planning

Planners remain immobile as they await Treasury clarity on grandfathering. ...

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Financial planning

FPA to make submission around transparency and consistency of dispute resolution scheme....

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Financial planning

ASIC claims to have been misinterpreted and that it will now consider matters relating to the RBA/Iraq bribery allegations....

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Financial planning

Morningstar analysis paints the big four banks as being an oligopoly which is stronger now than before the GFC....

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Financial planning

Six women have been named finalists for the third annual Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and TAL AFA Female Excellence and Advice Award. ...

Financial planning

FOS company secretary Nicolas Crowhurst defends its performance on planners, but acknowledges resolving issues without going to his organisation represents a good outcome...

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