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The Financial Service Reform Bill (CLERP6) is uncertain to make its January 1 2001 debut, following a delay in parliamentary proceedings until later this year...

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Lend Lease Financial Services has announced new names for its financial planning businesses....

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Permanent has signed up with ISPT, the trustee of the Industry Superannuation Property Trust, to provide back office functions....

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B4Bco’s decision to shelve its financial planning Web site finplan.com will have no affect on its training and development company IntegraTec....

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Buying distribution is not all beer and skittles. So says Mercantile Mutual's deputy general manager integrated financial services, Tony Hartley....

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County Investment Management has returned to the retail market after an absence of two and a half years....

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The National Australia Bank will separate its insurance and investment operations from banking in a restructure, following the acquisition of MLC from Lend Lease...

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Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Michael McKenna is leaving office, 14 months short of his three year contract....

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Life insurance companies are about to embark on a major industry-wide outsourcing campaign, according to a recent research report....

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The financial services industry’s current obsession with star ratings opens up a can of worms for consumers and the industry....

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A group of Count advisers including some of its biggest hitters have left the group, striking out on their own as a new accountant based financial planning group....

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An admission by two major UK public pension schemes that they wrongly advised thousands of immigrating clients has reignited the controversy over advice for immigrants to...

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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 suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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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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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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