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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put institutions with aligned advisers on notice after a recent surveillance project found that commission...

Financial planning

Lonsdale Financial (Lonsdale) has appointed its first chief executive and operating officers with general manager Mario Modica set to head-up the Melbourne-based group an...

Financial planning

The Securities Institute has seized the opportunity to swoop on yesterday’s deficit announcement by the Financial Planning Association (FPA) by revealing it attracted 1,6...

Financial planning

Budding software group Online Business Technologies (OBT) has signed its first major financial services client after aligning with Zurich Financial Services Australia to ...

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will post its first end of financial year operating loss this year, with an expected $2 million deficit for 2004, due to a fall i...

Financial planning

Praemium Portfolio Services and CARM GPS have agreed to integrate their respective business platforms, to streamline and industrialise sales and business processes for fi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) director of FSR licensing Pauline Vamos has announced her departure from the regulator following the implement...

Financial planning

Aon Wealth Management and Aon Financial Planning & Protection have snared BT Financial Group financial planning and advice (FP&A) chief operating officer Michel Scutts to...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has outsourced the administration of its accreditation regimes to Tribeca Learning (previously Integratec)....

Financial planning

Advisers are changing their view of education as merely a means for compliance under FSR to embrace the concept of ‘life-long’ learning, according to the Securities Insti...

Financial planning

Financial services education provider Tribeca has completed its integration of six business units acquired over the past three years with the last of those groups today a...

Financial planning

Financial services training and education provider Tribeca has announced a 27 per cent growth in sales revenue and earnings for the first quarter of the financial year fo...

Financial planning

Franchise dealer group RetireInvest has moved to bolster its ranks with two senior appointments three months after the firm’s ING parent announced plans to restructure it...

Financial planning

AXA-owned ipac has launched a new dealer group – Monere Financial Planning – into the adviser market with the aim of targeting external advisers wanting to focus on provi...

People & Products

Former Rothschild Australia chief investment officer, Jonathan Pain, has joined HFA Asset Management (HFAAM) as a member of its newly established Investment Strategy Comm...

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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...

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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