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Platform provider Symetry has struck a deal that will see it distribute Customer Acquisition and Retention Management’s (CARM) Guided Planning System (GPS) to the 200 adv...

Financial planning

From almost a standing start, Capstone Financial Planning has grown rapidly to earn a place on our list of Fastest Growing Independent Dealers....

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services Australia has bolstered its technical services team with the appointment of two specialists in response to adviser demand for additional regulat...

Financial planning

The Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC) has obtained compliance and asset preservation orders from the Supreme Court of New South Wales against Elm Fi...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued five compliance guidelines to the market offering practical advice to operators of managed investme...

Financial planning

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 ...

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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...

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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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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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