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Financial planners have taken a lot of criticism recently from some who say we are not moving quickly enough to embrace change....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned that it may ramp up its surveillance of financial planning groups to coincide with tough new regulations o...

Financial planning

Financial planning groups in regional areas will face a stricter program of regulatory spot checks by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after th...

Financial planning

The financial planning job market has moved on from its compliance myopia. Ross Kelly has the low down on the skills that will get you that dream job....

Financial planning

A double barrelled attack has been unleashed by the Financial Planning Association and Investment and Financial Services Association enforcing tough new guidelines on pay...

Financial planning

Financial planners are being prevented from improving the quality of advice they provide and may have to drop some of their smaller clients because of an overwhelming com...

Financial planning

Tribeca Learning has confirmed its bid to acquire the Strategist Group after signing a heads of agreement with the self managed superannuation fund education firm ahead o...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank, despite reporting a healthy operating profit for its wealth management business, has ended an otherwise tough year on a bad note after today repo...

Financial planning

St George Bank-owned Ascalon Capital Managers has acquired an equity stake of up to 46 per cent in Alleron Investment Management to bring the number of boutique fund mana...

Financial planning

The RetireInvest dealer group has been given a clean bill of health by KPMG, removing the enforceable undertaking put in place in February last year by the Australian Sec...

Financial planning

Risk advisers can benefit from using research. But as Ross Kelly discovers, that’s not where the story ends....

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Straight-talking Sharyn Besch is more pragmatic than her peers when it comes to the big issues in the profession she’s always wanted to get into....

Financial planning

The acquisition of Ipac is bringing about a sea change at AXA. John Wilkinson spoke to AXA’s Australian chief executive officer Andy Penn....

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Shadforths associate and private client adviser Tony Gray is in an enviable position....

Financial planning

Perpetual Trustees has indicated its private client and accountant referral-based Wilson Dilworth planning businesses will soon sit under the one brand while retaining tw...

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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 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. ...

4 weeks 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...

1 week 3 days 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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