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Coming to grips with the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act is crucial for those providing education within financial services according to Australian Securities and Inv...
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APIR, the group responsible for providing codes for managed funds, has scored a major coup with the announcement that the Association of Financial Advisers had signed up ...
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SyRes, the company developed by a number of dealer groups involved with master trust provider Symetry, has released two further services for the back office....
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Saxby Bridge Financial Planning has had its securities dealer license stripped and one of its investment advisers banned for five years following the latest crackdown on ...
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It is a pretty unusual occurrence to find a financial planner with nothing to do. It seems these days that if a planner does not have towering piles of paper work precari...
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Few providers of back office services to financial planners would disagree that they occupy the less glamorous side of the investment advice industry, toiling away in the...
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Financial services training group the Australian Institute of Financial Services (AIFS) has been bought by business publisher and information group CCH Australia (CCH) fo...
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The Financial Planning Association’s National Compliance Committee and Professional Standards National Advisory Committee chairman James Doogue will step down from the po...
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Life advisers are still a major force in planning and despite the impact of industry change their numbers have not declined. Simon Segal examines who held fast in the pas...
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The introduction of new privacy rules in December still holds uncertainty for parts of the industry, as ground rules are yet to be laid. Mike Taylor looks at the effects ...
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is planning to change its membership structure to recognise paraplanners and other financial services industry professionals as a...
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A round up of the latest events in the retail financial services business....
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The investment watchdog will not stand in the way of any financial planning group or master trust operator who charges fund managers a fee to appear on their recommended ...
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BT Financial Group’s uneasy relationship with master trusts and wraps has taken another turn with news it is to offer its wrap service directly to advisers for the first ...
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The Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) will alter the landscape in which agribusiness has to work. John Wilkinson reports on how the new rules will impact this investm...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...