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Risk insurance has long been a wallflower at the financial planning party. Hampered by the depressing reality that the client may not be around to spend the benefit, risk...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun the new year with a spate of actions against individual financial advisers....

Financial planning

AMP has announced a further 1900 job cuts from its troubled UK Financial Services arm, mostly from the ranks of its financial planners, at the same time as details of chi...

Financial planning

A former AMP financial adviser, Laurence John Tobin, has been sentenced to two and a half years jail after pleading guilty to charges laid by the Australian Securities an...

Financial planning

Money Management asked a number of wrap account/master trust players what they would like to see if they had unlimited funds, unlimited staff and were free from regulator...

Financial planning

AUSTRALIAN mortgage trusts are investing an increasing proportion of their funds in cash due to the current down market, meaning investors are being hit with lower than e...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has capped off a busy week after requesting an investment advisory group to notify clients regarding incorrect...

Financial planning

The level of outstanding loans relating to margin lending accounts, as well as the number of margin lending clients, have grown dramatically in the past year. PRUE MOODIE...

Financial planning

To gear or not to gear, that is the question. PRUE MOODIE and JOHN WILKINSON went in search of some answers....

Financial planning

The management, sector performance and funds of AXA Funds Management have been given a strong rating by Assirt....

Financial planning

ROYAL & Sun Alliance (R&SA) gave birth to Guardian Financial Services in November 2001. Not yet 12 months old, the group has already attracted 98 planners and has plans t...

Financial planning

LOOKING back a decade to when I was editing Money Management, I am struck by the similarities with stories running today....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) continuing campaign against solicitors mortgage schemes received another shot in the arm yesterday, with the...

Editorial

Challenger International has attributed a 24 per cent rise in year-on-year profits to an increase in sales of annuity and funds management products....

Financial planning

At the start of last year, solicitor’s mortgages were the topic of much discussion, especially in the halls of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)...

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