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Financial planning

Industry body Boutique Financial Planners has called for clear disclosure of licensee ownership after Roy Morgan research revealed a large percentage of consumers were no...

Financial planning

ASIC claims it had concerns about the quality of financial advice being delivered in Australia before the collapse of Storm and the Commonwealth FP enforceable undertakin...

Financial planning

Latest research shows up to half of clients using bank-aligned financial planners think their adviser is ‘independent’....

Financial planning

Perth securities dealer Stellar Securities has had its Australian financial services licence cancelled after it failed to comply with its financial requirement conditions...

Funds management

Australian Public Trustees (APT) has had its AFS licence cancelled after breaching a number of its financial and reporting obligations....

Financial planning

The regulator has put forward new proposals to update the record-keeping obligations for those who provide financial advice to retail clients. ...

Financial planning

The regulator has released a report in which it expressed concerns about the number of financial advice groups being owned by product issuers. ...

Financial planning

Two large banks have told the PJC that they do not impose sales targets on their financial planners, but revenue targets and adviser bonus structures are still in place....

Life/Risk

Adviser remuneration is only one part of the equation on life/risk churn, says AFA chief executive Brad Fox....

Financial planning

While recent media reports have painted a less than flattering picture of its former culture, it is important to recognise that Commonwealth Financial Planning has come a...

Editorial

Tasmanian Liberal Senator, David Bushby, who is chairing the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC, made a very good point when he said that nothing in the FOFA changes will pr...

Top 100

Many financial planning businesses have had to put their growth plans and other projects on hold while preparing for FOFA. Milana Pokrajac looks at opportunities lost....

Financial planning

Yellow Brick Road Finance has been required to change the way it authorises the companies operating its branches in line with recent changes to the national credit licens...

Editorial

The outcome of the next Federal election will determine the degree to which the financial services industry will be subjected to another far-reaching review similar to th...

Financial planning

Confronted by a Senate Committee inquiry, ASIC has delivered a highly detailed enforcement report and pointed to the likelihood of FOFA uncovering legacy issues....

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