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Editorial

The Macquarie Bank group has announced a small increase of three per cent, for the year to the end of March 2002 but has suffered a modest loss within its Financial Servi...

Financial planning

Chifley Financial Services will rollout a wider range of products and revise its current master trust under plans put forward by owners, the Local Government Super Scheme...

Financial planning

Assirt has released two separate ratings of Sandhurst Trustees and Norwich Union which looks favourably upon recent changes made at the respective fund managers....

Financial planning

Not content with being a renowned planner and media personality Nick Bruining has also attracted the attention of the government and for things possibly best kept private...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has failed in its attempt to include the term ‘financial planner’ in the list of restricted words and expressions in the Financia...

Financial planning

The Government’s options paper for the reform of the regulatory environment surrounding superannuation was developed, according to the Minister for Financial Services Joe...

Financial planning

Accounting and financial planning group Investment Taxation Specialists (ITS) has hit the hustings in the final days of the election campaign in a last ditch attempt to g...

Superannuation

The Financial Services sector would notice little immediate difference if the Australian Labor Party took office after November 10. Why? Because the ALP believes that the...

Financial planning

Tom Collins reckons the Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament will make life easier for unscrupulous operators and tougher for the honest opertors. H...

Financial planning

Delays in the release of regulations around the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) is hampering efforts to implement the new regime by the October 1 start date....

Financial planning

In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....

Financial planning

Further public hearings into the draft Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) have been scheduled for next month, following the initial round in late April....

Financial planning

Australian Unity has launched an education savings plan, the first issued by a major friendly society for more than 10 years....

Financial planning

Australian Unity has launched an education savings plan, the first issued by a major friendly society for more than 10 years....

Financial planning

Plans to partially prefund a portion of future state pension costs is one of the New Zealand government's most important and far-reaching policies, yet it is receiving li...

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