"FINANCIAL PLANNING"

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Wealth management fintech BigFuture has today unveiled an update to their cloud-based application....

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Financial planning

The good will built up by insurers can be too easily squandered by poor practices, a conference has been told....

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Financial planning

The lower premiums that go with group insurance do not always represent a better deal at claim time, according to Col Fullagar....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has defended the importance of the life insurance industry and pointed to a code of practice being in place in July....

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Financial planning

New research confirms financial advice is often the missing ingredient in achieving retirement incomes adequacy....

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Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office has signalled it will be seeking planners' help in steering clients away from aggressive tax planning schemes. ...

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Financial planning

ClearView declares end of “build” phase as it looks to extract advantages from post-LIF environment....

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Financial planning

Retail fund administrators need to emulate the example of industry funds in protecting members against non-payment of the super guarantee, says a former planner....

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Financial planning

The Government has introduced legislation to underpin the Life Insurance Framework with the promise of further industry consultation around the resultant regulations....

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Financial planning

ASIC has revealed how far it went to help planning firms overcome the surprise overturning of the Government’s FOFA regulations....

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Financial planning

The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has denied reports the Government intends abandoning its timetable for lifting the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent....

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Funds management

Securities transaction and fund administration software provider, GBST, has entered an end-to-end managed services agreement with financial advisory firm, Baillieu Holst....

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Financial planning

netwealth has been named the number one platform for functionality in a platform market increasingly seeking to compete to meet advisers’ needs....

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Financial planning

Paul Barrett’s Italian-backed AZ NGA has further grown its presence with the acquisition of Melbourne-based former RI firm, Empowered Financial Planners....

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Financial planning

Baby boomer accountancy practice owners are facing tough market conditions as many generation X and Y accountants eschew business ownership....

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