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One of the biggest moves in planning this year has been the emergence of Centrestone. SIMON SEGAL reports....
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is pushing for advisers to sign formal “terms of engagement” agreements with their clients as part of its bid to ease the ongoing...
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LIFE insurance houses have finally admitted what the funds management industry has known for some time – that third party financial planners hold the reins when distribut...
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THE FINANCIAL Planning Association (FPA) in the US has voiced its strong opposition to a US House Committee White Paper that the association says threatens US workers’ ab...
Financial planning
Preparing a financial plan for a client who has just been delivered a death sentence by the medical fraternity takes sensitivity and careful planning. JEFF LEVINS reports...
Financial planning
DAVE, 50, has been diagnosed with liver cancer and has been told he has only six months to live. He needs money for medical treatment and help around the house for his wi...
Financial planning
How do you keep clients happy in times like these? HARVEY BATE discusses the approach his firm has been successfully employing for years....
Financial planning
Assirt associate director Anthony Serhan has left the research house on Friday of last week bringing the total number of departures from the group in recent months to fou...
Financial planning
In Assirt’s rating of fund manager Zurich, the research house believed the integration process of the Zurich Scudder and Deutsche Asset Management businesses will bode we...
Financial planning
THE Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have launched an investigation into AM Corporation’s...
Life/Risk
NICOLE SZOLLOS finds there is much work to be done in promoting life insurance products to women....
Financial planning
The managed funds market in Australia declined by $13.7 billion between the March and June quarters at the end of the 2002 financial year, according to a report by the Au...
Financial planning
FINANCIAL planners should be on the lookout for substantial new business opportunities as a result of the soon to be implemented legislation changing the way superannuati...
Financial planning
THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has not ruled out the possibility of the combined National Australia/MLC group being required to pay further c...
Financial planning
Even the all conquering brussell sprout has failed to list the NRMA’s new financial planning division, ClearView Retirement Solutions, into the black, with the business l...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...