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In the first week of January ASIC has banned one financial adviser for a year and another two investment advisers for life, reconfirming its commitment in 2002 to protect...

Financial planning

In all noise surrounding the Privacy Act last year, ASIC also released a policy paper outlining the definition of a financial market. Mike Taylor looks at how this will a...

Financial planning

Over the past 12 months the working lives of Australia’s financial planning fraternity has been given a good shakeup and for some, even been turned upside down. The bad n...

Financial planning

Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...

Financial planning

Macquarie financial services has undergone a major re-structure with the division reverting back to a state-by-state approach from a national model, resulting in the depa...

Financial planning

Australia’s largest financial planning group, AMP Financial Planning, has announced a three year plan to radically overhaul its remuneration policy in what is being seen ...

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Consumer Protection special adviser Annette Donselaar will depart the watchdog early next year to take on a jo...

Financial planning

Financial services industry educators are heading for showdown with the Financial Planning Association (FPA) after the latter announced large scale changes to the way the...

Financial planning

Bridgeport executive director Robert MC Brown is frustrated when Bridgeport is described as a dealer group as he says that view ignores the essence of the group and where...

Financial planning

Financial planning dealer group Mawson Securities will restructure its operations and management after announcing it has boosted its financial planning numbers by 50 per ...

Financial planning

The best way for financial advisers to tackle the 1200 page long Financial Services Reform Act is one bite at a time says Clayton Utz’s director of financial services Kar...

Financial planning

Planners who help clients set up self managed superannuation funds must also tackle the issue of who will be the trustee. Ben Smythe examines how an external third party ...

Financial planning

In his first year at the helm of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear’s focus has been both on the home front as well as on the big picture issues. ...

Financial planning

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has not ruled out a possible increase in membership fees in line with its proposal to modify the association’s membership structu...

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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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