FINANCIAL PLANNING

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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...

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The Snowball Group has declared its intention to purchase Western Pacific Financial Group, which will result in scale benefits for the combined entity and a new level of ...

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An ongoing deterioration in the equity risk premium will require retail investors to “temper investment return expectations and adopt a more creative stance to eke out po...

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One of the major benefits Walter Scott and Partners will be able to reap from its acquisition by Mellon Financial Corporation will be the new owner’s distribution network...

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Western Australian-based financial services and stock broking firm Hartleys, with over $500 million in funds under advice, has agreed to continue to use support systems p...

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As the industry steps up its defence against a looming legacy problem, Zurich Financial Services is nearing the end of its rationalisation process and is close to putting...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made a number of orders against Bridgecorp Finance in relation to significant concerns regarding the company’s fi...

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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...

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The corporate regulator has banned a former representative of the Lonsdale Financial Group from providing financial services for five years after finding he gave clients...

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A leading academic and dealer group chief has cast serious doubt on the role of risk profiling as a key foundation to financial planning....

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A Townsville financial adviser has been banned for two years by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after being reported by his employer, RetireInvest....

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The Financial Planning Association’s Value of Advice campaign featuring the anti-hero Dazza has been well received to date and has gone a long way toward alerting consume...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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