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Financial planning

A record number of advisers are selling their businesses at the moment. The ones making the big dollars are those who run the most proactive businesses, according to Gran...

Accounting

Listed accountancy and financial planning consolidator Harts Australasia has added yet another accounting firm to its register with the purchase of The Business Results G...

Financial planning

Sealcorp is to ramp up its wrap account service and add screen scraping facilities to the adviserNet online service for advisers....

Financial planning

After selling a 50 percent stake to Perpetual Trustees in 1997, Investor Security Group was able to free up back office functions while retaining independence to serve hi...

Life/Risk

Financial planning groups are lining up to launch their own risk insurance master trusts. ...

Financial planning

</B>Investor Security Group has always prided itself on its commitment to independence and integrity. Simon Segal asks ISG boss Rob Keavney how the stance has affected th...

Financial planning

Tower Trust is restructuring its senior management ranks following its acquisition of IOOF’s trustee business and the merger of Tower’s Australian and New Zealand trustee...

Financial planning

In light of changing legislation and new policies from regulators, the industry is re-evolving in the areas of master trust and wrap accounts. Richard Shermon explains ho...

Financial planning

Lump sum or pension reasonable benefit limit? Scarcity or abundance? What do you recommend to your clients in relation to superannuation? Grant Abbott puts it to the test...

Financial planning

Tower Trust is restructuring its senior management ranks following its acquisition of IOOF’s trustee business and the merger of Tower’s Australian and New Zealand trustee...

Financial planning

Perpetual Trustees will expand its corporate trust business after purchasing AXA Trustees for $24 million....

Editorial

A member of a self managed super fund (SMSF) currently has an accumulation balance of $400,000. They are 62 years of age, working part-time, and all of their benefits in ...

Financial planning

Risk products that don’t pay commissions – you’ve got to be joking. Refunding trail commissions – too hard....

Financial planning

A Melbourne based accountant has pleaded guilty to ordering the redeeming of superannuation money on behalf of clients who had not qualified for retirement....

Financial planning

Tasmanian Trustees is looking at boosting its funds management business through internal growth and its new joint-venture banking operation with Bendigo Bank, says new ch...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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