AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

DomaCom has signed a third national dealer group to its Foundation Partner program, which has now signed a total of 11 Australian financial services (AFS) licensees that ...

Financial planning

DomaCom has signed a third national dealer group to its Foundation Partner program, which has now signed a total of 11 AFSLs that advise on a total of $3 billion....

Financial planning

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

Financial planning

With remuneration models under scrutiny in the face of significant regulatory overhaul such as the removal of volume rebates due to Future of Financial Advice reforms, ad...

Superannuation

AMP will continue to grow its SMSF capabilities in the second half of 2012....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Lion Advantage and banned its chief executive David Hickie from providing financial services for two years...

People & Products

Former ANZ executive Alan Logan appointed to head AFS....

Life/Risk

Some boutiques are not providing professional indemnity cover to new advisers according to Townsend Business and Corporate Lawyers....

Financial planning

ASIC has frozen $3.4 million in funds held by Investment Intelligence Corporation amid suspicion it operated without an AFSL....

People & Products

Westpac Australian Financial Services boss Peter Hanlon to hand over to Brian Hartzer and adopt an advisory role....

Financial planning

Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden has lobbied Washington for an intergovernmental agreement to resolve the FATCA debate....

Financial planning

Hiring for the Australian financial services industry has declined 37 per cent this quarter compared to the same time last year according to eFinancialCareers....

Superannuation

On the back of changes announced as part of the FOFA guidelines, My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist authority to enable accountants to continue to recomm...

Accounting

Dealer group My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist package for accountants, which it claims will go beyond the proposed legislation....

People & Products

BT Financial Group has appointed Adam McGuren as the national manager of Licensee Select....

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