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The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released a guide to help Australian Financial Service licensees who suspect they may be breaching relevant regulat...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has provided the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with an enforceable undertaking to improve key systems and controls in its finan...

Financial planning

Tower Wealth Management owned dealer group Bridges has increased its push into the external dealer group services market by appointing former BT head of wrap specialist G...

Superannuation

Rudy Haddad finds out what ‘gainfully employed’ really means....

Financial planning

One of the persistently used objections to choice of fund is ‘mis-selling’....

Financial planning

Melbourne-based boutique dealer Financial Partnership wants its planners to feel they have a say in the business, something it believes is sorely lacking elsewhere. John ...

Financial planning

Boutique dealer support and services company Paragem has signed up its second client since it was launched in May by former Sealcorp head, Ian Knox....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has signed a deal with Newcastle Permanent Building Society to badge BT’s wrap suite as the core platform within the NSW central coast firm’s wealth ma...

Superannuation

The future of Australia’s mushrooming $130 billion self-managed super funds industry is bracing itself ahead of the weekend’s Federal Election, according to the SMSF Prof...

Financial planning

Financial planners who do not hold an Australian Financial Services Licence will be hit with heavy fines and may even face imprisonment if they are caught out in a new Au...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has postponed the date by which fund managers and product providers have to comply with the new dollar disclos...

Financial planning

One of Australia’s oldest listed companies Washington H Soul Pattinson and Company has bucked the industry trend away from corporate super by announcing plans to launch i...

Financial planning

Financial planning business management group CARM has struck a deal with Professional Investment Services to provide the dealer firm’s network of over 1,200 planners with...

Financial planning

MLC has extended its range of adviser support offerings to external planners for the first time following the group rolling out its previously internally offered services...

Financial planning

Superannuation fund administrator CitiStreet Australia has struck a deal with global consulting group Watson Wyatt with the pair signing a ‘long-term’ agreement....

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