EDITORIAL

Today there are few willing to defend commission payments, writes George Lucas. But are commissions the root cause of all that is wrong with the financial planning indust...

Perennial Value Management's managing director said the fund manager is projecting a period of flat profit growth, but on a yield basis, there's good value in the market....

The combination of superannuation fund choice and the first prolonged downturn since the advent of compulsory super has fragmented the industry, writes Pauline Vamos....

The financial services industry needs to be alert to the fact that the Government is tightening regulatory control of the industry and its markets – not in a legislative ...

Reverse mortgage products are attracting a new breed of strategic senior borrowers who are proving the industry’s naysayers wrong, argues MARTIN LYNCH....

The nature of managed investment schemes has come under close scrutiny in the recent Environinvest case, writes James Lonie....

Embattled property funds management group Trinity has posted an after-tax net loss of $226 million for the financial year to June 30, down from a net profit of $34.5 mill...

Plunges more than 71 per cent during financial year despite revenue increase....

When the industry funds refer to “vertically integrated financial institutions” they are really referring to the major banks and insurance companies. And they are right. ...

The cost of providing financial advice has not been readily measured or quantified across the industry, writes Paul Barrett....

Col Fullagar considers the plight of orphan clients who try to make an insurance claim....

Austock records net loss of $20.9 million for the 2008-09 financial year, while financial planning team grows funds under management in first year....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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