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Financial planning

Is this the new minister for financial services? Not quite, but senator Helen Coonan, appointed minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer after the Prime Minister scra...

Financial planning

Ausmaq’s development of its spoke-and-hub solution for IFSA’s MfundEC standard will not happen unless it wins support from more than 50 per cent of the financial services...

Financial planning

SuperEC, the e-commerce initiative to establish a common set of standards for the electronic processing of superannuation related information across fund managers and sup...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services managing director Andrew Mohl has been re-elected to his second term as chairman of the board of directors for the Investment and Financial Service...

Financial planning

The Howard Government has been urged to reconsider the state of retirement savings after being returned for a third term in office at the weekend’s election....

Superannuation

It is with anticipation and some trepidation that the financial services industry greets the upcoming election as both parties have pushed superannuation onto the electio...

Financial planning

Fund Managers are caught in relationship crossfire. The demand for greater performance and transparency is gathering momentum. Consumers and key players in the food chain...

Financial planning

AMP and Macquarie have suspended business within certain unit trusts amid warnings from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to investors that a numbe...

Financial planning

The retail financial services industry has the opportunity to implement technology which will make it the envy of the financial services world. But, Tom Collins reckons t...

Financial planning

Fees for retail managed investment products dropped by six per cent in the five year period from 1996 to 2000, a report released by the Investment and Financial Services ...

Financial planning

The asset management industry needs to commit significant time and resources to innovative product research and development in the future, to keep pace with growing consu...

Financial planning

Fund managers should take a bigger role in social issues facing Australia, according to Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph....

Financial planning

The funds management industry needs an overhaul of small, inactive and low performing products to improve efficiency and customer service, according to two key research f...

Financial planning

As consumer interest and demand for financial advice widens demographically the industry could move to a tiered advice structure, Fidelity Investments vice chairman Rober...

Financial planning

Delays in the release of regulations around the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is hampering efforts to implement the new regime by the October 1 start date....

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