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People & Products

FMD Financial has announced its successful merger with FMD Group member Reynolds Williams and Associates and the appointment of former Perpetual Private Wealth executive ...

Policy & Regulation

The PJC has recommended key changes to Government legislation, providing hope it might act similarly on FOFA....

Financial planning

Australia's Auditing and Assurance Standards Board queries Europe's approach to audit reform....

Financial planning

The board of Australian Financial Services Group (AFS Group) has backed the company's chief executive, Peter Daly, in the face of reports of adverse comments attributed t...

Financial planning

The Government yesterday announced an extension to the 25 per cent drawdown relief for account-based pensions for the 2012-13 financial year....

Financial planning

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has approved the Commonwealth Bank's acquisition of Count Financial....

People & Products

Vanguard Australia founder Jeremy Duffield has been appointed a non-executive director of the MLC board....

Financial planning

ASIC wants retail investors to better understand the conditions and risks of hybrid securities and unsecured notes....

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association seems determined to “raise the bar” on professionalism in the financial planning industry, but as Mike Taylor reports, this might take ...

Superannuation

Financial advisers need to be wise when recommending insurance options within their clients' self-managed super funds. Warrick Hanley explains how small mistakes can lead...

Financial planning

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has flagged surveillance around residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) disclosure standards in 2012....

People & Products

Treasury Group Limited (TRG) and Global Value Investors Limited (GVI) have appointed boutique investment manager Aubrey Capital Management to manage its GVI share funds....

People & Products

Centric Wealth has announced the appointment of Phil Kearns as chief executive officer....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank is free to pursue an acquisition of Count Financial after being given the green light by the ACCC....

Financial planning

<b>Updated:</b> The Financial Planning Association has pointed to a future in which there are no Australian Securities and Investments Commission bannings of professional...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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