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The parent companies of Sentry Financial Services and Epic Adviser Solutions have signed a heads of agreement to bring the two licensees together under one dealer group, ...

Financial planning

For many years the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been urging the financial services industry to take a greater self-regulatory role in compl...

Financial planning

The Financial Literacy Foundation has launched its first booklet aimed at improving indigenous financial literacy programs....

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Perpetual chairman Robert Savage has forecast an 18 per cent increase in operating profit after tax for the company in 2007, based on the $122.4 million it achieved last ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Financial Services Group has flagged plans for further growth as it emerged as one of the key drivers in Macquarie Bank’s announcement today that it had recorde...

Financial planning

The Financial Literacy Foundation has secured an agreement for financial literacy to be included in the school curricula for Australian schoolchildren, starting from next...

Financial planning

The Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group is calling for a standard one-page document of conflicts of interest to be developed for inclusion on the front page of a...

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Praemium chairman Don Stammer believes the chance of the stock market dramatically crashing is becoming rarer....

Financial planning

The role of the financial planner has come under scrutiny with 85 per cent of Australian consumers believing there should be a law in place requiring planners to provide ...

Financial planning

Legg Mason Asset Management has launched a trust that gives Australian investors exposure to a broad range of global alternative investments....

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Bridges has bought the financial planning arm of three Sydney-based credit unions for an undisclosed sum....

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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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