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Advisers who recommended using a lifetime annuity to escape a 1997 ruling on means tested unemployment benefits for people over 55 should consider revising the strategy i...

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Australian Securities Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman David Knott says the three and a half year jail sentence handed down to a former Hartley Poynton stockbroker ...

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InvestorWeb has cut a deal with the AMP-owned financial planning business Hillross Financial Services to roll out the VisiPlan software to more than 70 Hillross sites....

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The overwhelming majority of people under the age of 24 and a third of people between the ages of 25 and 34 have failed to complete a will....

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Financial planners who traded their businesses for shares in consolidator Stockford may have lost up to half the value of their business in a day after Stockford’s share ...

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High profile industry figure John Godfrey has assembled some of the best-known names in the financial services industry to form what he says is Australia’s first “co-ordi...

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A review of the Managed Investments Act is to be undertaken by Malcolm Turnbull, financial services minister Joe Hockey announced in Melbourne this morning....

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Australian accounting firms that operate under the worldwide MGI banner are to merge to form a new financial planning group called Acquest which plans to list in October....

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News of the departure of Chris Selth from the head of international equities at BT has not made a great impression on researchers Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) and Investo...

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eStar Online Trading has been forced to halt its online share trading service because it was offering the service under another licence.y...

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Perpetual’s share registry joint venture with the Australian Stock Exchange, ASX Perpetual Registrars has settled its long-standing legal wrangle with Computershare....

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Former Tower Asset Management chief executive Derek Goodyer has settled a legal battle against his former employer, Tower....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months 4 weeks ago

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

8 months ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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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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The Federal Court has made interim travel restraint orders against two Falcon Capital directors, while also freezing one director’s assets....

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