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Financial planning

Jillian Segal examines how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission regulates e-commerce, so consumers can participate with confidence in these new developmen...

Life/Risk

The insurance world was recently shaken to its core with news from the States that even insurance executives were involved in fraud....

Financial planning

Sealcorp is to ramp up its wrap account service and add screen scraping facilities to the adviserNet online service for advisers....

Financial planning

Financial planners contemplating a move from adviser to manager should develop fail-safe business strategies before making the leap, according to Heraud and Harrison dire...

Funds management

Lifeplan Financial Group has begun discussions with two fund managers with a view to a merger or acquisition within the next few months. ...

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual has unveiled a 48 per cent growth in net profit in the year to September 30 to $174 million, thanks to its fast growing funds management and life insura...

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) ...

Life/Risk

Insurance and science are set to collide as genetics moves out of the lab and into the underwriting book. ALAN DOBLE takes a look at the state of play in life insurance a...

Editorial

While the issue of life insurance will usually crop up at some point in discussions with a client, HELEN TROUP believes that a discussion of risk should cover the well-be...

People & Products

Why would one of Australia’s most successful financial planning distribution businesses spend millions on setting up a direct distribution business? Stuart Engel speaks w...

Financial planning

Singapore’s financial planning industry has become one of the first in the South East Asian region to adopt a licensing regime for independent financial advisers (IFAs)....

Financial planning

Supplying the right financial services to each client is not always a simple task, especially when the client base numbers in the millions. Jason Spits looks at how the C...

Financial planning

The changing face of life insurance can be confusing to those not following the movements in products and suppliers. Doug Scriven takes a look at what has happened in rec...

Financial planning

AXA has signed a deal with US-based accountants Grant Thornton to offer financial planning services to its business clients....

Financial planning

Why would one of Australia's most successful financial planning distribution businesses spend millions on setting up a direct distribution business? Stuart Engel speaks w...

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