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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

Wealth management technology provider IWL has reported a record third quarter result in the March quarter of 2006, having achieved a profit 28 per cent higher than in the...

Financial planning

People who invested in a Packer-backed Challenger Financial Services’ property fund that invested in a Sydney shopping centre will only get a third of their original inve...

Financial planning

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Financial planning

A senior Westpoint director has accused auditor KPMG of already knowing about the failed developer’s problems before ticking-off its reports....

Financial planning

Complaints by consumers against financial planners plummeted yet again in 2005 according to the industry’s chief complaints resolutions service, which has also just won a...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has attacked the Australian Labor Party's (ALP) announcement of a six-point strategy underlying the superannuation policy it will take to the next ...

Financial planning

Despite one in five financial planners falling foul of the corporate regulator in its latest shadow shopping exercise, and the resulting negative coverage in the mainstre...

Financial planning

Tower Australia is offering 17 of its senior executives a total of 6.1 million share options, each for one Tower ordinary share....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) has experienced a strong 2005, posting a surplus of $1 million and increasing its membership by 30 per cent over ...

Financial planning

ING Australia and its aligned financial planning groups have experienced a growth spurt in planners, but overall financial performance for 2005 was disappointing....

Financial planning

Investors in Glebe Asset Management will have their funds paid out to them after the ethical investment manager, which put itself up for sale last October, failed to find...

Financial planning

The headhunter assigned to find the next chief executive for the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has dismissed concerns that Jo-Anne Bloch’s lack of direct involveme...

Financial planning

MLC has launched a new advertising campaign dismissing any speculation that its brand was going to be absorbed under the greater National Australia Bank (NAB) branding um...

Editorial

Funds management and financial planning giant ING Australia has increased its annual profit by 15 per cent, largely as a result of growing funds under management and life...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

4 months 4 weeks 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. ...

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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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