CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Policy & Regulation

Over 80 per cent of financial services chief executives believe the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will drive up the cost of operating a financial advisory net...

Funds management

Centro Retail Australia, an Australian listed real estate investment trust (A-REIT), has announced its intention to rebrand as Federation Centres....

Funds management

Praemium will take over as responsible entity of BlackRock's separately managed account scheme, with BlackRock to focus on providing asset management and risk management ...

Financial planning

ASIC announces targeted surveillance of research providers under new policy approach....

SMSF, company and trust documents provider Topdocs will integrate with Xplan, allowing pre-populating of forms and reducing data entry, the companies announced....

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that legally enshrining the term ‘financial planner/adviser’ is a necessary step towards creating a barrier to an industry being tarnished by spivs and...

Financial planning

Mathias Cormann, David Whiteley and John Brogden to debate MySuper implications in Sydney next week at a joint Money Management/Association of Financial Advisers thought ...

Financial planning

Industry super fund Equipsuper has undertaken a rebrand to, simply, “Equip”....

Financial planning

With one-stop-shop and non-aligned dealer group Yellow Brick Road recently announcing plans to recruit wealth professionals disenchanted with the institutional environmen...

Life/Risk

Most Australians would rather spend any extra income on building up their savings than upgrading their life insurance policies, according to a national poll by TAL....

People & Products

In line with strategic changes to its operations, Professional Investment Services (PIS) has made three senior management appointments....

Life/Risk

TAL chief executive Jim Minto points to the factors driving up group insurance premiums....

Superannuation

Equip Super has dropped half its name in a rebrand designed to reflect the fund's ambition and purpose, according to chief executive Danielle Press....

Financial planning

The Trust Company chief executive John Atkin has resigned after four years in the position....

Superannuation

The new superannuation environment that will evolve out of the Government's MySuper changes will be debated at a special Money Management/Association of Financial Adviser...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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

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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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