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Australian Unity revenues for the last financial year rose 9.2 per cent to $236.5 million, with private health cover being a star performer....

Financial planning

The West Australian government will contribute towards legal action being taken against the di-rector of a mortgage broking company put into liquidation last year....

Life/Risk

Australian Unity revenues for the last financial year rose 9.2 per cent to $236.5 million, with private health cover being a star performer....

Financial planning

While the explosion of information has led to more savvy clients, the role of the adviser is still crucial. Kate Kachor finds that education is about information, present...

Financial planning

Chase Manhattan Bank has forked out nearly $60 billion to acquire JP Morgan in a stock swap valued....

Financial planning

Former Westpac financial adviser, Luke Stuart McGrath has been given a lifetime ban from acting as a representative of a securities dealer or investment adviser from the ...

Financial planning

Further problems have cropped up for the former Soho Lemon scheme managers, with Suncorp Metway calling in its loan on the Victorian farm....

Financial planning

Australia's first listed accountancy and financial services group Harts Australasia has purchased leading trustee and portfolio management group Cardinal Financial Securi...

Financial planning

Australia’s financial advice industry is underpinned by licensing arrangements enforced and administered by the ever shrinking resources of our investment watchdog. Tom C...

Financial planning

When MLC life agents went searching for a home they didn't have to look very far. MLC Financial Planning set up shop in 1988 and has been providing dealer group support f...

Financial planning

The Strategist Group recently sat down and documented more than 100 different strategies that financial planners may implement when dealing with clients that have put in ...

Financial planning

The banks are getting into financial planning in a big way – and the National Australia Bank is no exception. John Wilkinson reports on the growth of the National’s prem...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based financial planning research and software group PlanTech Consulting has made its first foray into overseas market with a deal in South Africa....

Financial planning

Australian managed funds research pioneer Assirt is set to change ownership under a proposed deal between parent company St George Bank and Bourse Data....

Financial planning

Most Australian investors believe they will be worse off under the goods and services tax (GST) and even those who think they will be better off do not expect to increase...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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