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Financial planning
Former AMP Capital Investors executive Michael Evans has surfaced in the market to co-launch a new boutique investment group - Quest Asset Partners - along with former AM...
Financial planning
The Federal Government’s top finance industry advisory group - the Financial Sector Advisory Council - is calling on Australia to resist excessive regulation of the finan...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has interjected an American investment roadshow operating in July and August around Australia to ensure attendees do ...
Financial planning
The National Finance Industry Training Advisory Body (NFITAB) is embarking on an ambitious scheme to collate and rank every education program across the financial service...
Financial planning
Financial planners are set to face competition from an unlikely source - the medical profession, following a Melbourne-based start-up education provider Feest Financial T...
Financial planning
If confirmation of the ‘cleansing’ nature of recent regulatory and legislative changes was needed then this year’s Top 100 Dealer Groups will provide clear evidence with ...
Financial planning
The recent terse exchange between the Financial Planning Association and the Australian Investors Association revealed some of the deeper held suspicions relating to soft...
Life/Risk
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman David Knott has been recruited by the Insurance Council of Australia to assess public submissions on the ...
Financial planning
Affiliated dealer groups FuturePlus and Chifley Financial Services have resolved an ongoing dispute with advisers by withdrawing a 12-page commercial agreement the latter...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has acknowledged inherent flaws within the new Financial Services Reform regime are largely due to the legislation being principle-based rather tha...
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority says it has completed enforcement action against five directors of the former trustee of the Queensland-based Employees Pro...
Financial planning
The Australian Taxation Office in consultation with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission will not move to regulate ‘incidental’ tax advice given by financ...
Accounting
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has shut down another illegal managed investment scheme after successfully taking claims to the Supreme Court of Quee...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained interim orders in the Federal Court against former insurance agent, Domenic Romeo prohibiting him from r...
Financial planning
The Federal government will channel an extra $11 million into the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority over the next financial year, financed through widespread lev...
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