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Editorial
Funds management and financial planning giant ING Australia has increased its annual profit by 15 per cent, largely as a result of growing funds under management and life...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a discussion paper it hopes will stimulate debate among its members and in the industry about how assumptio...
Life/Risk
A 34 year old male non-smoker who borrows $250,000 to buy a home will have his mortgage repayments covered in the case of illness or involuntary unemployment if he adds a...
Financial planning
PlanTech is adding the final touches to a web-based service that will automatically populate the Generic Personal Statement, a document that standardises the way informat...
Financial planning
Aviva has boosted its range of life insurance products by being the first organisation in Australia to offer access to diagnosis and review of critical illnesses from a p...
Financial planning
Promina Group’s financial services division, including its life insurance and wealth management activities , posted a 10 per cent increase to $132 million in net profit a...
Editorial
The advice business of AXA Asia Pacific has experienced a strong year of performance in 2005 with operating earnings up $14.5 million, or 69.7 per cent, to $35.3 million ...
Financial planning
Independent financial advisers will remain key distribution channels for specialist life insurers PrefSure Holdings and Life Limited under its new owner Tower Australia....
Financial planning
How to value a financial planning practice? Read this article to get better insight into the financial planning business valuation process in Australia....
Financial planning
Inflows into Australia’s life insurance companies fell by 1.6 per cent last year from $34 billion to $33.4 billion, reversing a 0.6 per cent growth in inflows recorded in...
Financial planning
Total estimated superannuation assets grew by 6.7 per cent over the September 2005 quarter to $791.5 billion, according to APRA....
Financial planning
APRA and ASIC will jointly release an industry best practice guide on unit pricing within the next three weeks....
Financial planning
Mothers need to lift their level of life insurance cover, but most believe it is too expensive to do so, according to research conducted by TNS Australia on behalf of IFS...
Editorial
A booming Australian share market and strong growth in financial planning and wealth management products have resulted in a welcome boost to the bottom line of AXA Asia P...
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Podcast
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....