FINANCIAL PLANNING

Editorial

Apart from volatile markets and investor sentiment, this year has also seen major policy developments, new investment trends and key career and business moves. Tim Stewar...

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Financial planning

Older planners who have been deferring their retirement plans are putting their businesses up for sale as markets improve, according to Forte Asset Solutions director Ste...

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Financial planning

Experienced financial planners who are buying or selling a relatively small book of clients may decide to use a legal template for the transfer agreement and accept the r...

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Financial planning

The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, confirms he remains to be convinced on the need to legally restrict use of the term 'financial planner/adviser'....

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Financial planning

Former South Australian financial planner Trevor Wayne Carll has been sentenced to two years in prison with a 13-month non-parole period....

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Editorial

The launch of a national curriculum for financial planning degrees by the Financial Planning Education Council was a major win for the industry in 2012....

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Editorial

The Financial Planning Association’s ‘side deal’ with the Industry Super Network on FOFA drew plenty of flack from many key industry figures....

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Editorial

Plan B's Andrew Black could be forgiven for thinking he is being followed by IOOF in the wake of its acquisition of the dealer group....

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Editorial

Richard Klipin made a shock exit from the Association of Financial Advisers to join ANZ-owned dealer group millennium3 in 2012....

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Editorial

AMP's acquisition of Cavendish Group marked the beginning of a major push into the SMSF sector, while in the same month IOOF launched its bid for Plan B....

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Financial planning

Challenger has entered into an arrangement with the financial advisory arm of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank which will cover the distribution of Challenger’s Liquid Lifetime ...

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Financial planning

Specialist financial planning software provider IRESS announced this week it had released a new mobile application – XPLANtouch....

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Financial planning

Financial planners may have embraced life/risk as a valuable revenue stream in recent times but that was not necessarily reflected in the life/risk sector's underlying st...

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Financial planning

New platform launched to challenge planners in retail advice market....

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Financial planning

Melbourne-based accountancy firm Matthews Steer Chartered Accountants has announced the creation of a new wealth management division....

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