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Financial planning

Planner loyalty to platforms is being tested by fees and the freedom for planners to choose their own platform with two banks continuing to dominate the space...

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Top 100

Nearly 50 per cent of financial advisers access PI insurance through one of three insurers with CGU supplying nearly a quarter of planners with PI cover....

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Financial planning

Nearly 50 per cent of financial advisers access PI insurance through one of three insurers with CGU supplying nearly a quarter of planners with PI cover....

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Editorial

Money Management’s 2014 Top 100 Dealer Group research has revealed an industry which has changed substantially since 2007/08 and might be on the cusp of further change. ...

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People & Products

Mercer has appointed three new Australian entity board members, including two new independent non-executive directors....

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Top 100

Private wealth and boutique adviser groups have topped the list of planners and clients with high levels of funds under advice according to data gathered in this year’s M...

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Financial planning

Private wealth and boutique adviser groups have topped the list of planners and clients with high levels of funds under advice according to data gathered in this year’s M...

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Policy & Regulation

Coverage of the Commonwealth Bank planning saga has clients believing the events happened “yesterday”, placing increasing pressure on advisers to justify their value prop...

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Editorial

Good inflows into retail investment segments, retirement incomes and superannuation has seen retail and wholesale managed funds FUM/A jump over the 12 months to March. ...

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Financial planning

Westpac recruits internally for key agribusiness role. ...

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Financial planning

Westpac’s business customers are the most optimistic about the Australian economy of the Big Four, the latest Roy Morgan Research Business Survey reveals....

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Financial planning

Falling interest rates has taken the sheen off term deposits, losing 36,000 customers over the last 12 months, in contrast to the SMSF sector....

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Life/Risk

Advisers must be extremely diligent about ensuring they fulfill their duty of care, as two recent court cases have shown. David Glen runs through the post-FOFA adviser ch...

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Funds management

Financial services group Hunter Hall has announced it is screening out and ending investment in fossil fuel companies....

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Financial planning

New Roy Morgan research suggests Commbank has not been too badly mauled by recent bad publicity around planning....

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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...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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