CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Boutique dealer group Premium Wealth Management has launched a new service aimed at helping accountants deal with the new licensing regime replacing the accountants' exem...

Editorial

AMP Limited has turned in a solid full-year net profit on the back of improved performances across a range of divisions including wealth management and AMP Capital....

Policy & Regulation

The dawning realisation that grandfathering arrangements may be put in jeopardy is likely to create a spike in the number of planners changing dealer groups before 30 Jun...

Superannuation

Banks are receiving numerous calls from customers anxious about the Government’s proposed changes to superannuation....

Financial planning

FSC's John Brogden offers to have the industry co-fund a public education campaign on the value of advice....

Funds management

Global markets are awash with liquidity and the medium prospects for equities looks good when compared to bonds, according to Epoch Investment Partners chief executive Bi...

Editorial

Suncorp Group has lifted its dividend on the back of a strong half-year result....

Financial planning

Should ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ be synonymous in the eyes of law?...

Policy & Regulation

The implementation of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms looks set to remain "medium soft" until 1 July 2014, according to Shadow Treasurer Mathias Cormann. ...

Financial planning

Financial software provider Rubik Financial Limited has signed a provisional agreement to acquire Provisio Software, a provider of scaled and online advice technology to ...

Funds management

WAM Capital has posed the question of whether 2013 will be the year of the bull amid a strong start to equity markets, at the same time as announcing a strong half-year p...

Accounting

The IPA has restated its intention to over-ride APES 230 while accountants remain concerned that the APESB is not moving on the issue....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Council's backdown on its 'churning' policy has been welcomed by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

Financial planning

As more financial advisers go down the specialist path, establishing a successful financial advice business in the new regulatory landscape may require a similar approach...

Financial planning

SMSF administration company superMate has launched an additional feature to its cloud-based software platform — an automated depreciation schedule feature....

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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 ...

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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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