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The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has stepped up its support for the introduction of the proposed growth pension, to fill the existing gap in the m...

Financial planning

Andrew Mohl has added his voice to the chorus of fund managers calling on the government to allow equity and property investments to form part of lifetime annuity product...

Financial planning

Genetic testing is likely to remain at the forefront of issues facing the life insurance industry over the next decade. Aaron Driver reports on how the major players are ...

Financial planning

Despite its best efforts, the baby boom generation is growing old. The implications are dramatic. The largest group of people in history is moving into the traditional re...

Financial planning

After a several month search, the Australian Retirement Income Streams Association (ARISA) has hired Kevin Casey as the association’s new chief executive....

Financial planning

APIR Certificates has unveiled a smart card it hopes to establish as the standard online security device for the financial services industry....

Financial planning

APIR Certificates has unveiled a smart card it hopes to establish as the standard online security device for the financial services industry....

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Financial advisers are failing in their compliance duties in selling disability insurance, according to the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

Genetic testing is likely to remain at the forefront of issues facing the life insurance industry over the next decade. Aaron Driver reports on how the major players are ...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services chief Andrew Mohl has been named as chairman of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) for 2001....

Financial planning

LIFE insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a recent Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ruling....

Financial planning

Life insurance companies will not require policy holders to undergo genetic testing under a ruling delivered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) ...

Financial planning

Last year I wrote an article I called “Regulation – friend or foe, crutch or protector” (<I>Money Management</I> retitled it “Is it really necessary to have more rules fr...

Financial planning

The amount of conferences and seminars run each year can create a huge demand on advisers. Jason Spits asks if the benefits are worth the effort....

Financial planning

The Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the deadline for compliance with its training requirements to 30 June 2002....

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