The number of financial planners placing corporate super books on the market has spiked on the back of concerns about legislative risk, while planners are also concerned ...
Many financial planning firm owners could be forced to pay large amounts of extra income tax if the ATO goes ahead with proposed changes to the treatment of certain tax s...
Insurer AIA Australia has appointed Damien Green as its new chief executive, replacing Stuart Harrison, who resigned in March this year to take up the role of chief execu...
Former Wilson HTM head of private wealth management Tony McCarthy has been appointed director of the newly-opened Brisbane office of Elston Partners....
Morningstar has placed a 'hold' recommendation on Souls Funds Management products following the announcement of the impending resignation of lead portfolio manager Frank ...
Financial planners have been witness to a rush of new retirement income products hitting the market but, as Liam Egan explains, the fall-out from the global financial cri...
Small advice firms and dealer groups actively targeting private wealth and investment bank advisers affected by restructuring programs....
The six largest institutionally-owned dealer groups place an average 73 per cent of their clients' super products with their own parent company, with the top three placin...
Managing director Greg Kirk has accused rival dealer groups of deliberately trying to destabilise Genesys in order to attract advisers....
The chairman of the Federal Government inquiry into superannuation, Jeremy Cooper, has raised the prospect of the government operating a national super default fund....
Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...
ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...
ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...