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Financial planning

Despite the absence of a chief executive, Sealcorp has wasted no time firing a new salvo in the rapidly escalating war on wrap accounts, announcing revised terms and cond...

Life/Risk

Difficulties in matching product features with client needs in complex areas of risk coverage like trauma mean advisers should seek specialist alliances, writes Pauline F...

Financial planning

A new managed-fund fee structure from BBL Funds Management could potentially change the way financial planners run their businesses....

Financial planning

With 1999 already tipped as the year of the millennium bug, companies around the world are scrambling to get ahead of the problem. And some Australian financial planning ...

Financial planning

AMP has expanded its operations in the UK with the $3.5 billion acquisition of National Provident Institution (NPI)....

Financial planning

The fallout from the lengthy, convoluted and occasionally acrimonious merger last year between New Zealand's two largest financial adviser bodies continues....

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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 ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

4 weeks 1 day ago

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...

1 week 4 days ago

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

3 weeks ago