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Financial planning

Implementation of the Federal Budget superannuation initiatives will result in intense competition between fund managers to develop pension products and services to attra...

Financial planning

Auditor KPMG has defended itself against claims that it had some responsibility for the losses incurred by investors in the failed Westpoint group of companies....

Financial planning

After last week revealing it would consider settling out of court with clients who lost funds in Westpoint’s failed products, Professional Investment Services has deflect...

Financial planning

AMP expects the focus of financial advice to shift as a result of the proposed changes to superannuation announced in this year’s Federal Budget, but has rejected suggest...

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services (PIS) is considering whether to settle with clients who lost money in Westpoint’s failed investment schemes rather than face court, acco...

Life/Risk

Since the introduction of superannuation freedom of choice legislation, there has been a greater focus on finding the best funds for clients. Most of the focus has been o...

Editorial

Macquarie Bank has announced a 13 per cent increase in its reported earnings for the year to March 31, 2006....

Financial planning

Dealer Management Systems (DMS) has received a major boost with Count Financial signing up for its commission processing system....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State (CBA/CFS) has topped a list of “Super Star” performers in the platform space for 2005 based on research that considered a combinati...

Financial planning

US fund manager LSV has stated that it will not launch another Australian fund once its initial offering has been completed....

Life/Risk

Shadow shopper has revealed a “surprisingly” low percentage of consumers received life insurance advice although, according to industry experts, the responsibility lies o...

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services is now standing on its own two feet as an independent dealer group, following its 39.7 per cent shareholding buy-back from Zurich Financial ...

Financial planning

In a rare move, Aviva Australia has given an insight into its financial performance by announcing a 31 per cent rise in pre-tax profits of $160 million for 2005....

Superannuation

After you’ve clocked up a few years in the workforce, those fantasies about driving off into the sunset seem to come up a lot more frequently. But if the federal governme...

Financial planning

The UK Government encouraging people not to use timber from native forests will have little impact on Australian forestry managed investment schemes, according to three m...

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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 ...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

6 months 3 weeks 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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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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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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