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Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning’s director of advice-based distribution Steve Helmich has stepped aside as chairman of the FPA’s professional standards and ethics committee while ...

Financial planning

Underlying hot topics like the commissions debate, Australia’s insurance gap and compliance is the need to boost consumer confidence and reinforce the value of advice, ac...

Financial planning

Between 12 and 15 financial planning groups are to proceed with a class action against Challenger Financial Services Group over the collapse of its Challenger Howard Prop...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning has given the Australian Securities and Investments Commission an enforceable undertaking relating to the provision of superannuation switching adv...

Financial planning

A Newspoll survey commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has found Australians in general still need to improve their levels of financial liter...

Financial planning

Global financial services companies need strong local operations in Australia because of this country’s strict regulatory requirements, according to Aviva Group chief exe...

Superannuation

The chief executive of a specialist self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) administrator has predicted members of these funds will be revisiting the type of property in...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s fund management arm Colonial First State Asset Management has announced a joint venture with China Cinda Asset Management Corporation...

Financial planning

The Bank of Ireland has restructured its investment arm Bank of Ireland Asset Management, which has involved three new appointments at managing director level....

Financial planning

Invesco has appointed Mick O’Brien as the new chief executive for its Australian operation....

Financial planning

Independent financial planning and stockbroking firm Shadforths has established its presence in the Sydney market after entering into a joint venture with Taylor Bowring ...

Life/Risk

Privately owned financial advisory firm Centric Wealth has added general insurance advice to the range of services it provides to its customers in response to strong clie...

Superannuation

Almost one third of Australians have made very little preparation for their retirement a new survey has found....

Financial planning

Specialist financial services software provider Pentafin Services has entered into an agreement to supply Andrew West Stockbroking with its WealthVue wealth management pl...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 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. ...

4 weeks ago

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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