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A review of real estate agents providing investment advice in regard to property is being sought through an FPA submission to the Australian Securities & Investments Comm...

Financial planning

BT Funds Management’s technical team dives into the Ralph Committee Report to review the potential implications for financial advisers and their clients. By Brian Bissake...

Financial planning

The financial services industry breathed a collective sigh of relief following the the announcement by Treasurer Peter Costello that the government will take Ralph Review...

Financial planning

Amidst all the talk of mergers and acquisitions in the life insurance industry, it’s easy to lose sight of the strength and size of the industry in Australia. ...

Financial planning

A little under two years ago, the Wallis inquiry handed down its 700-plus-page stock-take on the financial system. So it’s appropriate to take stock of what has happened ...

Financial planning

This will be the biggest of all planning issues over the next 12 months. Despite its title, ANTS is not a new tax system at all – it’s the current system with a lot more ...

Financial planning

To many in the financial services industry, the title “paraplanner” conjures up an image of a quiet techie beavering away behind the scenes on the lesser tasks of financi...

Financial planning

This year will be significant for the investment industry because of the huge undertaking the Government has set in train to reform the entire tax system, with particular...

Financial planning

The recent holiday period saw two crucial developments in the Ralph review of business taxation unfold. ...

Financial planning

With 1999 already tipped as the year of the millennium bug, companies around the world are scrambling to get ahead of the problem. And some Australian financial planning ...

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