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Policy & Regulation

Mortgage Choice has taken its predicted profit hit amid the slowing property market and the uncertainties created by the Royal Commission....

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Policy & Regulation

UBS Securities has been slapped with a $120,000 penalty by the regulator’s Markets Disciplinary Panel after it had reasonable grounds to believe that UBS contravened mark...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank chief executive, Matt Comyn has agreed that mortgage brokers should be subject to the same sort of client best interests duty as financial planners....

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Life/Risk

A key Senate Committee has been told that the Government’s new Design and Distribution Obligations and Product Intervention powers risk putting advisers in conflict with ...

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Policy & Regulation

Trail commissions have been dealt another blow, with the Productivity Commission recommending that they be banned in mortgage broking for all loans from the end of this y...

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Financial planning

There is a noticeable dip in the number of trades during World Cup matches when the market’s national team is playing, Lonsec research shows. ...

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Financial planning

Consumers are still voting for brokers over the banks as the provider for lending options, according to Mentor Education Group founder, Mark Sinclair. ...

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Financial planning

More than 65 per cent of mortgage brokers are concerned about the reputation of their industry following the Royal Commission, according to a MyState Bank survey....

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Funds management

Retail online investor numbers climbed to a record high in 2017, with improving market sentiment seeing 645,000 Australian place at least one share in 2017, according to ...

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People & Products

Aon has bolstered its broking business with two key appointments — with one being an internal promotion while the other is an external recruitment....

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Financial planning

More clients are going directly to stockbrokers for margin loans, while margin debt in the broker channel is almost on par with the financial planner channel....

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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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 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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