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The Australian Scholarships Group Friendly Society (ASG) has launched two new education funds, enabling investment in fixed interest securities for the first time....
Financial planning
The penny has finally dropped. Financial planning groups have embraced large scale superannuation and are fighting fiercely for a piece of the rapidly growing market....
Financial planning
New Zealand's National Party has criticised the Government's proposed superannuation fund, claiming it would contribute only a tiny percentage of the cost of future pensi...
Financial planning
New rural industries such as herbs and durians have the potential for strong rates of return and low break-even points, a new financial modelling reports reveals....
Financial planning
Three developments in recent weeks point to an elevation of the financial planning industry onto the national political stage....
Financial planning
New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....
Financial planning
Last year I wrote an article I called “Regulation – friend or foe, crutch or protector” (<I>Money Management</I> retitled it “Is it really necessary to have more rules fr...
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
Alan Cameron probably has the most unenviable job in the Australian financial services industry....
Financial planning
Newly elected national president of the Securities Institute Michael Willis has lent his voice to the argument calling for real estate agents to be subject to the same re...
Financial planning
Reaction to the recent federal budget has been fairly subdued with most industry analysts noting the lack of news for the financial services industry....
Funds management
Not too long ago, bonds for special purposes, like education and funerals, were very popular. But as investors become increasingly more sophisticated in their financial p...
Financial planning
Schroders Investment Management has welcomed the news that its British parent is to offload its global investment banking business to Salomon Smith Barney. Schroders dire...
Financial planning
Schroders Investment Management has welcomed the news that its British parent is to offload its global investment banking business to Salomon Smith Barney....
Financial planning
Consumer confidence in New Zealand has reached its highest level in three years ac-cording to the latest WestpacTrust McDermott Miller survey. Results for the December 19...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...