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Steve Helmich was today elected new chairman to the board of the Financial Planning Association of Australia following the decision by John Godfrey to stand down for pers...
Funds management
The news of the healthy returns from US hedge fund investments continues to flow in as mutual fund managers report more lack lustre performance results....
Financial planning
AUSTOCK Brokers has taken a strategic stake in Stockford and is seeking seats on the board less than two weeks after the departure of St George from the troubled consolid...
Financial planning
THE main opposition groups to the Australian Taxation Office’s (ATO) crackdown on mass marketed tax effective schemes have combined to form a peak industry body in order ...
Financial planning
Three directors involved with a loans scheme to fund development of an invention have been found to have operated an unregistered managed investment scheme by the Austral...
Financial planning
Futuro Financial Service, a Queensland financial planning firm has unveiled an ambitious growth program in a bid to become a leading financial planning group boosting its...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has backed up its promise of taking a ‘hard line’ against solicitors’ mortgage schemes, appointing a liquidato...
Financial planning
AM Corp has confirmed that it will wind down its troubled Diversified Traded Policies (DTP) Fund over a five year timeframe after a tumultuous nine months in which the gr...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive officer Lynn Ralph has handed in her resignation after four and a half years, with current deputy...
Financial planning
The announcement by Fiducian at the end of last month that it had acquired Bodinnars Personal Financial Planners marks a new era for a small private company which over th...
Editorial
The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) looks set to result in further compliance and legislative costs to superannuation funds offering member investment choice, warns ...
Financial planning
How much does the planner sitting next to you earn? Are they more valuable than you? The easiest way to measure the monetary worth of a financial planner is by their job ...
Financial planning
IOOF members have voted overwhelmingly to end the friendly status of the organisation and become a listed company....
Financial planning
Australian Unity group managing director and chief executive officer Mark Sibree has stepped down from the top post effective immediately after the group announced change...
Financial planning
From an early age, Kevin Bailey knew he wanted to be involved in financial services. However, when you’re a teenager and there is no such occupation as a financial planne...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...