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Financial planning

A round-table of industry chief executives has backed calls for ASIC's intra-fund advice relief to be extended to financial planners....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has renovated its Code of Professional Practice for the first time in years, bringing several of the FPA's codes and standards un...

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Financial planning

Australian Ethical is in the market for a new chief executive following the decision by incumbent Anne O'Donnell to stand down in early December....

Top 100

AMAL AWAD examines how dealer group performance and planner numbers have held up over the past year in the face of a global financial crisis....

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Editorial

In light of recent events, it is timely to reflect on who the Investment and Financial Services Association is actually representing....

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association and the Association of Financial Advisers are to join together to push regulatory reform of the financial services industry....

Financial planning

Rewards have dropped by 6.8 per cent while fixed income growth has slowed to 2.8 per cent....

Financial planning

Clients are generally far better informed about the markets and their investments than before the onset of the global financial crisis, according to Alan Harrison, chief ...

Life/Risk

One of the traditional strongholds of financial planners, insurance sales, may be under threat, with the intra-fund advice regime giving superannuation funds the power to...

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Financial planning

Global CEO appointed to steer company through debt problems will not renew contract....

Financial planning

The industry needs to work harder at managing and explaining risk for super members, while planners must determine what clients hope to achieve through their investments....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has named the corporate regulator, along with itself and Storm Financial, as one of the key stakeholders involved in the circumstances ...

People & Products

Will be responsible for developing new institutional business and growing future prospects in Australia....

Financial planning

IFSA defends legislative requirements but says areas of financial services regime could be improved....

Financial planning

The VOA awards are designed to promote and define the value of professional advice....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months 1 week ago

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

3 months 2 weeks ago

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

5 months 2 weeks ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

4 weeks ago

A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

2 weeks 6 days ago

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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