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Financial planning

The New South Wales Supreme Court has appoved the scheme of arrangement for the merger between Permanent Trustees and Trust Company of Australia....

Financial planning

Tower Limited has abandoned plans to sell its personal and corporate trustee businesses in Australia and New Zealand and plans to use them as part of a growth strategy, c...

Financial planning

Investorweb Research has brought in Ken Atchison to help with the production of its annual property sector review....

Accounting

An accountant and his daughter were sentenced to jail by the County Court of Victoria after being found guilty of intending to permanently deprive their clients of more t...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified a former executive director of an insurance management group from acting as a trustee of any supera...

Financial planning

The Trust Company of Australia has been appointed as the approved trustee for superannuation vehicles previously administered by Beacon Funds Management (BFM), after BFM ...

Financial planning

The managing director of Frank Russell Australasia, Alan Schoenheimer has predicted a shakeout in the superannuation administration sector at the same time as announcing ...

Financial planning

LOWELL Flinders, the dealer group headed up by long-standing industry figure and former Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair John Godfrey, is seeking to expand and ...

Financial planning

Preparing a financial plan for a client who has just been delivered a death sentence by the medical fraternity takes sensitivity and careful planning. JEFF LEVINS reports...

Financial planning

DAVE, 50, has been diagnosed with liver cancer and has been told he has only six months to live. He needs money for medical treatment and help around the house for his wi...

Financial planning

It’s the imponderable question, what do the wealthy want? JOHN WILKINSON asks those who should know – the private banks....

Financial planning

The Austrailan Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has replaced the trustee of a small superannuation fund based in Victoria after discovering the fund directors were ...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia’s (ASFA) chief executive Philippa Smith says the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) claims recently ...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has forced Beacon Funds Management (BFM) to transfer the funds under its trusteeship to a new approved trustee....

Financial planning

IN A MOVE that reflects recent restructuring at Tower Limited, Tower Australia has announced it will use Powerlan and IBM technology to build an administrative system tha...

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