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Financial planning

Pressure is being put on the Government to fully fund the Office of the Retirement Commissioner's office...

Financial planning

The NRMA Insurance Group share buyback offer has generated such a large amount of interest that it could become oversubscribed....

Financial planning

The relationship between financial planners and dealers is under fire. The effects of the upcoming Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) combined with that of the Aliena...

Financial planning

The creation of a new accountant based dealer group mid last year resulted in a whirl of publicity as some big names struck out on their own. Kate Kachor looks at their p...

Financial planning

The series of changes in financial services and insurances has resulted in cost increases which may be passed on to clients. Doug Scriven examines how those writing risk ...

Financial planning

Alienation of personal services income is a bomb ticking beneath the financial planning industry. ...

Financial planning

The recent spate of new faces at BT Funds Management is the current phase in what has been an active revolving door over the past 12 months....

Financial planning

The focus on corporate superannuation is long running and is centred mainly on the complexities involved with branching into it. But as Nicole Szollos discovers it is now...

Financial planning

Nearly three quarters of financial planners are selling or recommending life and risk products, according to a survey commissioned by ING....

Financial planning

The growth of financial planning, particularly the top level, is being hampered in New Zealand by the changing face of the advisory industry....

Financial planning

AMP has just poured out a new independent subsidiary liquid.co.nz, which is the New Zealand version of AMP Direct....

Financial planning

Fund managers have picked up a large slice of the distribution available in the rush to get product under the noses of planners and clients but a number have chosen not t...

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Royal & SunAlliance Australia has reported a $69 million end of year profit for its financial services division, and a continued positive performance in its asset managem...

Financial planning

ING’s financial planners will be able to move further into the realm of life and risk insurance after a software deal was signed by ING and PlanTech Consulting....

Financial planning

AMP has just poured out a new independent subsidiary, liquid.co.nz, which is the New Zealand version of AMP Direct....

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