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Financial planning

Sealcorp-owned advisory groups Securitor and Pact will rebate 100 per cent of client fees paid by cheque to the groups back to advisers, creating a fee for service model ...

Financial planning

The purchase of MLC by the National Australia group in 2000 has left a deeper impact on both groups than may be apparent on the surface....

Financial planning

Research group 5Di will be absorbed back into the Garrisons financial planning group as part of an ongoing restructure which will also result in the group rolling out a d...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has appointed Jillian Segal, former commissioner and deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), as a...

Financial planning

While the pay may be less than spectacular, paraplanning is set to become a career in its own right. Ben Abbott reports....

Editorial

Despite headlines to the contrary, not everyone in funds management is raking in the big dollars with senior executives finding the drop in the market and the consolidati...

Financial planning

Mentor Australia Financial Planning will revamp its planner remuneration model as the group gets ready to expand its Sydney presence and make a number of acquisitions in ...

Editorial

The industry is full of elephants, says Rob Keavney, but the elephants’ days are numbered....

Financial planning

Research conducted by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has found that managed funds are still the leading investment vehicle for advisers despite the fact that many ar...

Financial planning

Tower Australia has appointed former Royal & SunAlliance general manager sales and marketing Ken Brewer as the new head of its recently restructured Pivotal dealer group....

Financial planning

Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...

Financial planning

When ING unveiled its Tandem Financial Advice dealer group in August 2002, the result of merging its Lynx, Partnership Planning and AustAdvisers dealer groups, the market...

Financial planning

Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...

Financial planning

Hunter Hall Investment Management has undergone a staff reshuffle with the appointment of a new chief investment officer and the resignation of one investment analyst and...

Financial planning

Guardian Financial Planning was created as a haven for risk-based advisers in the face of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) and, as Simon Segal writes, the group h...

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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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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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