CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Consumers would receive a rebate to help pay for financial advice on superannuation under a proposal that has been put to the Federal Government by a key banking lobby gr...

Financial planning

Positive investor sentiment towards advisers has increased over the past 12 months, accompanied by a marked improvement in sentiment toward managed investments, according...

Financial planning

A “taken aback” chief executive of the Financial Planning Association, Kerrie Kelly, has demanded the chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission take a...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services will be able to offer its clients access to international securities after acquiring a 25 per cent stake in Five Oceans Asset Management....

Financial planning

AMP has severed one of the last remaining links to its former UK operations, announcing today that it had sold its residual stake in the Henderson Group for $212 million....

Financial planning

The FPA has stepped up the pressure on its members over soft dollar payments, asking them to prove they are complying with a new code of conduct....

Financial planning

If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...

Financial planning

Allianz Global Investors today announced that Australian chief executive Peter Rayner would leave the group to be replaced by his deputy....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services has confirmed it is in negotiations to buy a US-based financial planning group, in a move that could result in Australia’s second largest...

Financial planning

Wholesale wrap platform Avanteos has signed a deal with Colonial First State to access its FirstChoice wholesale multi-manager funds....

Editorial

Benevolent market conditions, a lucrative broking arrangement with a big four bank and an increase in sign-ups to its advisory software program, VisiPlan, have helped IWL...

Financial planning

Household savings rates in many OECD countries have fallen sharply in recent years, with the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand now having the lowe...

Financial planning

The venture capital arm of Perth based dealer group Western Pacific has taken minority stakes in two boutique fund managers — MMC Asset Management and Select Asset Manage...

Financial planning

The new celebrity backed dealer group launched by Professional Investment Services has set itself the ambitious target of having $10 billion under advice within five to s...

Funds management

A strong wealth management performance in Australia and New Zealand helped lift AXA’s net profit for the half-year to June 30 by 36 per cent to $246 million....

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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...

6 days 14 hours ago

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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