AMP

Funds management

Growing financial advice practices to gain scale to meet the challenging new environment is being made harder by bank lending policies....

Financial planning

AMP is partnering with its advisers to offer free financial advice to Australians who suffered loss due to the recent bushfires....

Financial planning

AMP’s proposed new wealth business model has been mapped out for a Parliamentary committee....

Financial planning

Former AMP and NAB authorised representative David O’Brien has been banned for failing to make sufficient inquiries into his client’s circumstances....

People & Products

Peter Varghese will not seek re-election at the end of his term and Rahoul Chowdry has been appointed as a non-executive director....

Funds management

Australian Foundation Investment Company has reduced the number of its total holdings from 85 to 71, selling out of Perpetual and AMP due to ‘sustainable competitive adva...

Funds management

In the wake of its money-laundering scandal, most funds that had a high allocation towards the bank managed to recover losses indicating the resilience of big banks....

Life/Risk

Resolution Life, the company which is acquiring AMP Life, has gone to the market and raised US$3 billion ahead of closing the AMP deal early next year....

Funds management

The common theme of the worst performing Australian equity funds was a focus on financial services holdings and little in property....

Features

A financial adviser class action against AMP Limited may not be in the best interests of all advisers, writes lawyer, Dan Mackay....

Policy & Regulation

The exit of the major banks means the original funding source for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will mostly dry up in May next year with advisers t...

Financial planning

A lawyer has questioned the value of AMP advisers signing up to a class action against AMP Limited when their individual circumstances can be significantly different....

Financial planning

Market analysts are pointing to some key obstacles for AMP Limited, not least the so-called ‘Halloween deadline’ for the exit of unprofitable planners....

Financial planning

Suggestions that robo-advice will be sufficient to meet the needs of those earning $80,000 are well off the mark, according to Investment Collective managing director, Da...

Financial planning

Larissa Baker Cook, who exposed AMP’s fee-for-no-service, is asking for $2.5 million for past and future economic loss....

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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. ...

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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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