FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Balanced funds posted their first month of negative returns in March since July last year, on the back of weaker share markets....

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The Securities Institute of Australia and the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance are to merge, subject to member approval from both organisations....

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With the full privatisation of Telstra viewed as likely to compromise the ability of the company’s employees to remain members of the public sector CSS super fund, their ...

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Count Financial has coaxed Albury-based financial planning firm, The Next Step, away from its previous institutionally-owned dealer group....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has forced an undertaking from one promoter of wealth creation seminars and won a court case against another g...

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Colourful British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin group has blasted Australian financial planners as self-interested and greedy while yesterday revealing that it wou...

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A marriage break up and a death in the family formed part of the reason why Hobart based financial planner Brendan Moore did not give four of his clients statements of ad...

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One of the industry standards which will make the transition to choice of fund easier for employers has been launched by the Assistant Treasurer, Mal Brough....

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A Tasmanian financial planner has become the first scalp in the corporate watchdog’s new super switching campaign, after not giving his clients statements of advice....

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Reports of the property market’s death have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new survey showing a 14.7 per cent rise in mortgage sales across Australia during Mar...

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Capstone Financial Planning has targeted New South Wales as the next stage in its growth plans with the dealer group now holding more than $1 billion of funds under advic...

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Van Eyk Three Pillars, the listed quantitative investor in Australian equities, has shared its high returns with investors by paying a special dividend....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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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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