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Due to the wave of change ripping through the financial services industry, law firms specialising in this sector will be fighting for your business. Leanne Mezrani points...

Barry Lambert looks at the underlying value of an AFSL, why you might avoid buying one and the likely impact of licensing accountants. ...

A strategy for winning the Tour de France has a surprising number of elements in common with winning the race in investing and financial planning, according to Edward Smi...

When Commonwealth Financial Planning was subjected to an enforceable undertaking imposed by ASIC in 2011, it was the subject of a good deal of media coverage in Money Man...

There will be many in the financial services industry who will welcome the return of Chris Bowen to over-arching management as Federal Treasurer of the Financial Services...

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...

Responsible investment hasn’t exactly taken off in the planner space despite the advent of cheaper products and easier access. Bela Moore reports. ...

Despite the Parliament having risen for the winter recess, and probably for the last time before a Federal election, it will nonetheless be difficult to keep politics out...

How many winners do you need? Richard Skelt from Fidelity explains how investment performance is actually generated and asks whether the concept of ‘batting average’ is a...

With Parliament having risen for the final time before the Federal election and the new legislative settings now largely in place, Lisa Claes says that when the regulator...

Between financial planners and fund managers stand research houses vetting products as they come to market, often to the chagrin of fund managers who have come to rely on...

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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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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 cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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