FINANCIAL PLANNING

Financial planning

Recently on a flight, I found myself sitting next to a couple also on their way back home to Airlie Beach, near Mackay. Striking up a conversation, I found they had moved...

Financial planning

Cultural issues play an important role in the relationship between client and adviser. NICOLE SZOLLOS reports on some of the challenges faced by advisers working in Asia....

Financial planning

Chifley Financial Services will rollout a wider range of products and revise its current master trust under plans put forward by owners, the Local Government Super Scheme...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers’ Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...

Financial planning

Large institutions have failed to understand the nature of financial planning despite the fact they are building large distribution groups according to Sealcorp Victorian...

Financial planning

A Melbourne-based securities dealer is offering planning groups an equities tracking service for clients’ portfolios....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Consumers' Association (ACA) will engage in a survey of the financial planning industry des...

Financial planning

Niche marketing is not about scaling down your business – it’s the total opposite. Five financial planners tell KATE KACHOR and FIONA MOORE how niche markets have helped ...

Editorial

It is best practice to launch a business venture already knowing who your target market is. GEORGE LIONDIS spoke to ClearView’s general manager, John Cowan, about doing j...

Editorial

Financial planners can no longer afford to target clients by age and net-worth alone. NICOLE SZOLLOS investigates the demographics that matter....

Financial planning

Real estate agents have made another high level push into financial planning with the launch by the Raine and Horne real estate group of Raine and Horne Asset Management ...

Financial planning

Legal practitioners specialising in family law could be forced to include trained financial planners into their practices by the end of this year following amendments to ...

Financial planning

Sealcorp head Ian Knox will take on the role of head of investment services with St George Bank after investment services group executive Richard Cawsey announced his dep...

Financial planning

The Strategist Group is looking to immediately enlist another 30 financial planning or accounting groups to its network of self-managed super fund (SMSF) specialists, the...

Financial planning

One of Australia’s peak accountancy bodies, CPA Australia, has asked groups tendering to provide back-up services to its newly proposed dealer group to help finance its v...

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