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Perth-based financial services provider Ballast will offer its full service offering to Go Gecko Real Estate as part of a formal strategic alliance....

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Superannuation

SMSFs may be booming - but the unwary can also find themselves within the sights of a small number of dodgy property advisers and mortgage brokers, writes Damon Taylor. ...

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Funds management

ASIC has suspended LM Investment Management’s AFSL for two years as its investigation into the fund manager continues. ...

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Accounting

The APESB has agreed on the amended version of the controversial APES230 standard. ...

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Funds management

The directors of LM Investment Management have appointed John Park and Ginette Muller of FTI Consulting as voluntary administrators....

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Life/Risk

There have been too many bad practices with respect to churn for the regulator to abandon this issue, according to ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell....

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Editorial

As planners grapple with how to implement the changes flowing from the FOFA reforms, David Hasib examines the stark choices that many will have to make, including actuall...

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Financial planning

A Sydney director has been banned for three years after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found he was unfit to engage in credit ac...

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Financial planning

Ibbotson Associates’ Matthew Esler highlights that effective client engagement not only empowers financial planners with the key to unlocking scaled advice but also ensur...

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Superannuation

Will 2013 be the defining year for self-managed super funds? Bryan Ashenden's policy overview discusses the implications for advisers....

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Life/Risk

Former director of insurance broker offers enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

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Policy & Regulation

Updated regulatory guidance published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) late last year has shifted much of the compliance burden directly ont...

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Financial planning

Trust Company confirms its trustee arm has been served with a legal claim relating to the Banksia Securities collapse....

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Financial planning

The new guidance on best interests duty implies asset-based fees are just as conflicted as commissions, according to Claire Wivell Plater....

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Funds management

Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) has called for property to be regulated as a financial product under the Corporations Act....

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

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JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

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PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

15 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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