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Guardian Financial Planning managing director Paul Forbes has been hired by Professional Investment Services, with a brief to drive the growth of its Australian operation...

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As predicted, investment banking and funds management giant Macquarie Bank has raked in another bumper profit of close to half a billion dollars, largely underpinned by a...

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The real story of financial planning recruitment this year is not that the prevailing skills shortage continues to broaden, but that there has been no corresponding rise ...

Despite contributing almost half a million dollars to its new television advertising campaign, the FPA has posted an after-tax budget surplus of $1.187 million for the ye...

Perth-based dealer group Western Pacific has purchased a considerable stake in listed financial planning company Snowball Financial, in a move that will give it a strateg...

Australian fund managers spend a lot of time and money wooing financial advisers with junkets, increasingly complex products and, of course, much-debated trail commission...

There is much irony in the fact that most advisers can not agree on what a financial planning business is worth....

At the start of 2003 Cliff Garrels and his financial planning business partner began the process of selling their financial planning practice in Adelaide....

When Australian Private Capital’s principal decided a shake-up was in order, all the pieces of the puzzle had to fall into place. John Wilkinson reports....

Expect fire and brimstone and all manner of damnation when the financial planning industry’s new code of conduct on soft dollar payment goes live on 1 January....

There are some members of the financial services industry whose influence transcends any particular year. They are, and always will be, some of the industry’s most influe...