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Financial planning

It is every planner’s nightmare – the entire client database lost....

Financial planning

PROFESSIONAL indemnity insurance premiums have risen dramatically in the financial advisory marketplace, resulting in more costly advice and administration fees for consu...

Financial planning

The biggest influence on the back office technology provided to financial planners over the last year had nothing to do with bytes, modems or memory....

Financial planning

Who will pay for the costs of implementing the Financial Services Reform Act is a question that has been lost in the noise of the rollout of the Act. JASON SPITS examines...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar today released a Business and Management Strenth (BMS) rating on AXA Australia, scoring the group with a mark of three representing a place in ...

Financial planning

THE RECENTLY launched Boutique Financial Planning Principal Group (BFPPG) has almost doubled its membership in its first month of existence since launching at the end of ...

Life/Risk

While the insurance industry is in disarray and premiums are going through the roof, risk insurance is too important to be dismissed. JOHN ASHTON reports on how planners ...

Editorial

It is said that a year is a long time in politics but in the world of technology and software it is close to eternity....

Financial planning

Tribeca Corporation has acquired Resnik Communications for $3.5 million, in a bid to continue its growing professional services operations....

Financial planning

Futuro Financial Service, a Queensland financial planning firm has unveiled an ambitious growth program in a bid to become a leading financial planning group boosting its...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar has released a qualitative report on Deutsche Asset Management which rates the fund manager with an overall score of four, which means it is in...

Editorial

The Count Financial group has flagged a small increase in its after tax profit for the 2001-02 financial year, despite another horror year on investment markets....

Financial planning

Strategic Investments Australia has undergone an internal restructure, resulting in the promotion of Chris Lumby to chief executive officer....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will not be extending the July 1, 2002 deadline to comply with Policy Statement (PS) 146....

Editorial

The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) looks set to result in further compliance and legislative costs to superannuation funds offering member investment choice, warns ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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