CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Asgard has become the default superannuation provider for Ernst & Young’s 3,500 Australian staff....

Financial planning

Tribeca Learning will exit its compliance business and scale back its events business, as it braces for a disappointing finish to 2004-05....

Financial planning

Macquarie Wealth Management has signed up the first six planners for its new affiliate dealer group, Lachlan Wealth Management, luring them away from Godfrey Pembroke....

Financial planning

The Securities Institute of Australia has engaged advisers concerned about their obligations under super choice, releasing a series of products intended to help them hand...

Financial planning

Financial planners will be able to provide tax-related advice to clients, and charge a fee for the privilege, after the Australian Taxation Office ignored opposition from...

Editorial

For those looking for the big bucks, funds management is still the sector for lucrative packages. In particular, investment specialists continue to be well-remunerated, w...

Superannuation

Any adviser unclear over the extent to which super choice will raise the bar on their duty of care towards clients need only look to the recent experience of their collea...

People & Products

AXA Australia has appointed the former boss of one of its advice businesses, ipac Securities chief executive Peeyush Gupta, to the new role of general manager advice....

Financial planning

The weight of industry opinion appears to fall on the side of a fee-for-service as a method of adviser remuneration under choice, although some suggest the case has not y...

Financial planning

The Morningstar research house will drop qualitative measurements from its famed star rating of fund managers, announcing today that the ranking system would judge manage...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has given its planned new dealer group an identity, and confirmed that former Retireinvest chief executive Mark Spiers would head up the business....

Financial planning

One of the world’s largest fund managers has cut-off access to van Eyk Research, accusing the ratings house of acting as its competitor and claiming that it could not tru...

Financial planning

Almost 500,000 or 8 per cent of those Australians eligible to determine their own super fund under impending choice of fund legislation will opt to do so according to new...

Financial planning

Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...

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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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