St George Group has surprised the market by announcing changes to the structure of its wealth management and retail financial services division, resulting in the departur...
Zurich Financial Services has introduced a new online application service for its Ezicover life insurance product aimed at giving dealer groups and other distribution par...
A survey conducted by the Bank of New Zealand Australia has revealed that business people running small to medium-sized enterprises most value advice from accountants and...
Schroders Investment Management has a new Australian chief executive officer, announcing today that it had appointed its head of product, Asia Pacific, Greg Cooper to tak...
A Townsville financial adviser has been banned for two years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after being reported by his employer, RetireInvest....
The chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, John Laker, has revealed that as many as 30 per cent of the financial institutions supervised by APRA have...
The executive director of the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners, Peter Johnston, has retracted a number of statements relating to the Challenger Finan...
Tower Australia Limited is to split from Tower New Zealand, with the Board recommending a geographic separation of the two businesses....
The Federal Government needs to legislate to clear the way for financial services companies to more easily rationalise their product offerings....
AMP Financial Planning has given the Australian Securities and Investments Commission an enforceable undertaking relating to the provision of superannuation switching adv...
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 cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...
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. ...
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...