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Financial planning

The previous chief executive of RetireInvest Mark Spiers and the current head of Partnership Planing Mike Walker have both departed ING shortly before Christmas....

Financial planning

Recently launched financial planning business management group Customer Acquisition and Retention Management (CARM) will launch its own funds management and financial pla...

Financial planning

Dealer group Grosvenor Securities has announced an equity offer plan to the group’s 45 proper authority holders, in a move to grow the Grosvenor business....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services (PIS) will launch its own master trust but denies it will cannibalise funds from other products on the dealer group’s approved list....

Financial planning

For my last article, I normally summarise my previous articles for the year. However this time I want to only do that in part. That’s because this year was the last year ...

Financial planning

Financial services group Fiducian has gone live with its own internally developed administration system in what the group is calling one of the most significant achieveme...

Financial planning

Over the past five years, the acquisition by banks and insurance companies of independent financial planning groups has become common market activity. These acquisitions ...

Financial planning

Growing interest in investing has also called attention to some less than professional practices. Tom Collins argues that in the public’s eye planner renumeration may fal...

Financial planning

Boutique funds management group Investors Mutual will launch two new funds before the end of the year as part of an expansion plan according to managing director Anton Ta...

Financial planning

I set off on my recent trip to the UK smug in the belief that I’d be able to teach the Poms a thing or two, as our industry, as we keep telling each other, is so far ahe...

Financial planning

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

Financial planning

Wraps and master trusts have almost become commoditised, but TOM COLLINS says they should adopt new methods to offer better value to advisers and clients....

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) intends to proceed with a plan to develop a transactional processing service for unlisted managed funds....

Financial planning

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

People & Products

Garrisons financial planning group is the third major advisory group to sign up to deliver InvestorWeb’s VisiPlan software....

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