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Financial planning

All major institutions have reported falls in funds under management (FUM) over the past 12 months, with the sector experiencing its worst performance in three years....

Financial planning

If Industry Super Network has ended 2011 as the industry's big winner, it came at the expense of the financial planning industry....

Funds management

New managing director appointed as Darren Steinberg departs Colonial First State Global Asset Management Property....

Editorial

Tim Sanderson puts the traditional asset allocation approach head to head with the bucket strategy, with some surprising results....

Superannuation

Low-cost products introduced over the past 12 months by major providers such as Colonial First State, BT and AMP may have served to undermine the assumptions and disclaim...

Policy & Regulation

Major platform providers have called for parts of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms to be delayed due to lingering uncertainty with respect to grandfathering ...

People & Products

Challenger recruits Cathy Hales as GM for boutique partnerships....

Financial planning

With both tranches of the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation now released, participants in a Money Management roundtable discuss the good, the bad and the ugly ...

Financial planning

It has been a tough year for platform providers, with three out of six largest platforms reporting negative net flows for the year ending June 2011, according to data pub...

Financial planning

Commonwealth Financial Planning has offered an enforceable undertaking to ASIC as it seeks to strengthen its risk management framework following indiscretions from a "sma...

Financial planning

The expectation of a change in Government and consequent changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation has created serious uncertainty and prompted at leas...

Superannuation

The gap between industry super funds and the big six retail superannuation funds has significantly shrunk over the past year in terms of customer satisfaction, according ...

Superannuation

The gap between industry super funds and the big six retail superannuation funds has significantly shrunk over the past year in terms of customer satisfaction, according ...

Superannuation

Asgard is pushing its new Infinity platform as being cheaper than most public offer industry superannuation funds....

Financial planning

Asgard is pushing its new Infinity platform as being cheaper than most public offer industry superannuation funds....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months 1 week ago

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...

2 weeks ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

3 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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