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AMP Financial Planning managing director Steve Helmich has been appointed to the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) board to rep-resent the large dealer groups....

Financial planning

A group of financial planning dealers have banded together to provide financial advice targeting government institutions and large corporations in the process of downsizi...

Financial planning

The 1999 Financial Planner of the Year is Peter Dunn. Dunn, sole director and owner of Melbourne-based Moneyplan, is an industry stalwart. In spite of keeping up the jug...

Financial planning

The Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAA) has given the nod to the Securities Institute of Australia (SIA) as the preferred supplier of post-qualification financial p...

Financial planning

Until today, there has been no in-depth research published on the state of play in the financial business. Money Management commissioned KPI Research to inves-tigate Aust...

Financial planning

The creation and maintenance of a web strategy should not be regarded as separate strategy in a financial planning business but rather one which sits alongside mar-keting...

Financial planning

Since its inception, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has set about establishing financial planning as a distinct profession. Such distinction recognises that the...

Financial planning

Institute of Actuaries executive director Jock Rankin is not renewing his contract when it expires in January next year....

Financial planning

Planners should tell their clients about all eventualities with their plans, as a means of preparing them for downturns, says Tim Farrelly of Macquarie Bank....

Financial planning

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has fired a broadside at the Federal Opposition for delaying important reforms to financial services industry regulation....

Financial planning

Colin Scully, the founder and managing director of Bridges Personal Investment Services, has resigned from the Financial Planning Asso-ciation’s board. But, he stresses, ...

Financial planning

Every financial planner’s practice is a franchise just waiting to happen. Instead, how-ever, most are so busy working that they do not have the time to get rich....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is to audit financial planning groups to en-sure its members adhere to the association's disclosure regime....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is to audit financial planning groups to ensure its members adhere to the association’s disclosure regime....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme (FSCRS) has gained the approval of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to oper-ate as an exter...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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