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Financial planning

A former AMP superannuation agent has entered a guilty plea in the Sydney District Court to one charge of defrauding a former client following an Australian Securities an...

Financial planning

Mercer Human Resource Consulting today launched Mercer Wealth Solutions to provide super fund members with financial advice and information on savings, lifestyle, debt ma...

Financial planning

The Assistant Treasurer, Helen Coonan, says the Government will push ahead with plans to reform superannuation in a bid to deliver on its election promises....

Financial planning

Financial markets provided investors with some respite in March with the median fund manager in the InTech growth survey returning 1.64 per cent over the month....

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will be undertaking a significant review of AMP’s proposal to de-merge its operations in Australia and the UK prior ...

Financial planning

Binding death nominations virtually eliminate the need for trustees to make decisions in relation to death benefits, but they are not without their complications. Kathryn...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified two former directors of Commercial Nominees of Australia (CNAL) from acting as responsible officers...

Financial planning

Peter Hogan answers the questions that flummoxed advisers last year....

Superannuation

Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty has backed member choice for superannuation funds putting his views at odds with most industry funds which have publicly campaigned for y...

Financial planning

More than two thirds of Australia’s superannuation fund members have a taste for environmental investments which if fuelling demand for agricultural investments such as t...

Financial planning

The vast majority of Australia’s 12 million superannuation fund members will be smiling when they receive their superannuation statements in the next few weeks....

Financial planning

Superannuation fund members may be starting to find they are being targeted by their own funds’ affiliated financial planners, if the results of the Top 100 survey are an...

Financial planning

Australia’s superannuation system remains as baffling as ever to the people that use it, a survey has found....

Financial planning

NSP Buck’s personal financial services division hopes to double its planner numbers by December in an aggressive move on the retail financial planning market....

Financial planning

By offering choice to employees, the superannuation industry is boosting the demand for financial advice. But super funds are going head to head with financial planning g...

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