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Fund managers must have the right people running their outsourcing services if they want to maintain their distribution relationships with financial planners. "Financial...

Financial planning

A cheaper way of reaching rural advisers around Australia has been launched by AM Corporation with its Internet conferencing service. The service, claimed to be a first f...

Financial planning

The Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) needs to improve its structure if it is to administer a registration scheme for financial advisers, acco...

Financial planning

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Financial planning

A significant number of funds management groups missed the June 30 deadline for lodgement of trustee retirement notices under the Managing Investments Act (MIA), accordin...

Funds management

This is an open letter to all funds managers from a typical adviser who runs a small business. I mean to raise issues that urgently need to be addressed by all sides of o...

Financial planning

In less than a fortnight, the first conference to combines wholesale and retail financial services kicks off in Melbourne. Two of the IFSA conference's keynote speakers s...

Financial planning

Australians are most likely to choose a fund managers based on a recommendation, usually from a financial planner or family member, rather than advertising, a new ASSIRT/...

Financial planning

Australia's managed funds industry is poised to break through the $500 billion for the first time....

Financial planning

The Managed Investments Act 1998, (MIA) made changes to the regula-tion of managed investment funds with the aim of ensuring greater ac-countability of fund managers to i...

Financial planning

It is timely to reflect on our industry. Not because of the millen-nium, but because over the last twelve months or so we have seen a changing of the guard in the indust...

Financial planning

Tower Corporation's long march towards demutualisation is almost over, following an overwhelming member vote in favour of the concept and the withdrawal of a fi-nal appea...

Financial planning

As we approach the first anniversary of the Managed Investment Act (MIA), it is timely to consider its impact. Our prediction that the new regime would be less easy for f...

Financial planning

I remember, when discretionary master trusts were becoming popular in the mid-nineties, business development managers (BDMs) employed by fund managers were concerned abou...

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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