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Financial planning

Founder of Frontier Advisors Fiona Trafford-Walker has been named Woman of the Year as part of the Money Management/Super Review inaugural Women in Financial Services Awa...

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People & Products

TAL has appointed Emlyn Pugh as head of retail claims to bolster its newly centralised operational centre....

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Life/Risk

Fortnum Financial Advisers is requiring the major risk insurers to meet a higher set of standards before they can be admitted to the group’s APL as “preferred insurers”....

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers still face some high hurdles in trying to match clients’ risk insurance needs with solutions but there are ways of overcoming these challenges, writes ...

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Financial planning

Sam Hills outlines what should be on a financial planner’s regulatory radar – and it’s not just the usual suspects....

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Financial planning

Life insurer TAL this week acquired all of the shares in the online life insurance business Lifebroker that it did not already own. ...

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Financial planning

Financial advice has remained the major issue in almost all areas of investment-related complaints filed with the Financial Ombudsman Service. ...

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Editorial

A close reading of the submissions so far lodged with the Senate Committee investigating the operations of ASIC suggests the newly-elected Abbott Government will be right...

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Superannuation

Corporate super specialists have been the most negatively affected by the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms due largely to a misunderstanding about the services t...

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Editorial

With both bonds and equities looking set to struggle if inflation rises, it will be important to limit exposure to them via diversification and dynamic asset allocation, ...

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Life/Risk

ASIC deputy chairman Peter Kell has used his speech at the AFA national conference to announce major surveillance of retail advice with respect to life insurance. ...

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Financial planning

The BT life insurance business this week laid claim to passing a milestone, with one million policies now in-force....

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Superannuation

New data shows it was the over-65s who were most optimistic following the election result. ...

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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar delves into the pros and cons of winding up an income protection policy and taking a commuted benefit, and what the process of commutation involves. ...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds should be permitted to 'bundle' consent by their members to provide information covered by the Privacy Act, according to ASFA. ...

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