Larissa Tuohy

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Can financial advisers give specific taxation advice? Are they authorised to discuss tax matters with clients at all? Even armed with a new tax ruling that appears to fav...

The introduction of super choice will give financial planners an opportunity to demonstrate the value of insurance benefits, and hopefully increase general awareness amon...

The recent decision by UBS to prevent van Eyk from reviewing its funds has focused attention on whether a conflict of interest exists where a research house offers servic...

Listed property trusts were the darling of the Australian market in 2004, returning 32 per cent. No one believes there will be a repeat performance in 2005, but more than...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has successfully appealed to the South Australian Supreme Court after the Magistrates Court failed to convict a forme...

Financial planning software provider Xplan has enhanced its service offering, teaming up with Navigator to supply client and transaction information from the latter’s pla...

The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...

Community and Corporate Financial Services is one of only a number of dealer groups in the country to use credits unions as a referral base. From its humble beginnings in...

With most of the ‘shocker’ products weeded out, and interest among investors surging, the agribusiness sector is heralding in a new Spring, writes JOHN WILKINSON...

Dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services is certainly living in interesting times. The firm first began its active recruitment drive in 2002, which culminated ...

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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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ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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