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Financial planning

The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is gauging the industry's reaction to the possible implementation of a two-tier advice system of independent and affiliated...

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Financial planning

Austrac has commenced a program of random on-site inspections of financial planners for compliance with anti-money laundering laws....

Financial planning

Appointments will focus on providing more support to advisers....

Life/Risk

Australia Post will be offering car, and home and contents insurance, with plans to roll out travel insurance as well in the coming months....

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Financial planning

Product providers and financial advisers are going to be poles apart when it comes to the complexity of the service they provide: Stackpool....

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Financial planning

SARINA RUFFO considers the impact of bankruptcy on your assets, including superannuation and insurance proceeds....

Editorial

When the industry funds refer to “vertically integrated financial institutions” they are really referring to the major banks and insurance companies. And they are right. ...

People & Products

Professional Investment Services has appointed the final member of its new-look management team, with Kelly Wyman joining as group general manager, services....

Editorial

Col Fullagar considers the plight of orphan clients who try to make an insurance claim....

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Financial planning

Planners should work with referral partners to achieve the best business succession outcome, writes JON DE FRIES....

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Financial planning

Financial services providers should not be allowed to appeal against the removal of their licence in cases of bad advice....

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Editorial

IOOF Holdings has flagged the sale of its life insurance business in its 2009 annual results, in which it posted a 32.1 per cent loss in net profit to $15.85 million....

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Financial planning

The Cooper Review into Australia's superannuation system has officially kicked off with the release yesterday of its scoping paper setting out the review's approach and t...

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Editorial

Suncorp's profit for the 2008-09 financial year fell 40 per cent in what chairman John Story called a challenging year for the group....

Financial planning

Software will automatically generate level premium structure when providing an insurance quote....

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