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Financial planning
Financial planning firms and dealer groups would be levied by ASIC according to the number of authorised and employee representatives they have on their books....
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Education Council (FPEC) announces two winners of its FPEC University Research Grants....
Policy & Regulation
The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s performance is likely to make recommendations based on how past failures were owed to a lack of intelligence and necessary skills....
Financial planning
ASIC has confirmed to a Parliamentary Committee that it is reviewing the latest industry funds advertising campaign....
Editorial
The Government’s amendments to the FOFA legislation seemed capable of creating some loopholes around commissions but, as Mike Taylor writes, the major planning organisati...
Financial planning
Investec Bank chairman David Gonski backs diversity on super fund boards....
Editorial
The executive director of the Revenue Group within the Federal Treasury, Rob Heferen, made a very important point to last month’s SPAA conference in Brisbane: any change ...
Financial planning
Australia’s corporate regulator is severely limited in the range and severity of penalties it can hand out for wrongdoing - particularly compared to the US and UK, a revi...
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has laid out how the regulator sees the future of financial planner education – and the challenge will be how the indu...
A senior Treasury official has suggested retail default funds may be best served by writing to members urging them to make a choice to retain their existing status....
Superannuation
As the Fair Work Commission president considers conflict of interest issues with respect to his specialist superannuation panel, it is revealed the Government had a choic...
People & Products
Peter Mason retires after eight years as AMP chairman, to be replaced by Simon McKeon....
Financial planning
BOQ appoints Ferrier Hodgson’s Bruce Carter to board....
People & Products
Investment researcher Morningstar’s current chief executive officer Anthony Serhan will now be managing director of research strategy, Asia-Pacific for Morningstar’s glob...
Financial planning
Morningstar has named current CEO Anthony Serhan as managing director of research strategy Asia-Pacific for Morningstar's global research group. ...
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