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Life/Risk

Financial advisers are failing in their compliance duties in selling disability insurance, according to the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC)....

Superannuation

The Australian financial services industry is a ‘soft target’ for regulation and the system is causing a continual drop in the number of professionals, says Million Dolla...

Financial planning

More than 100 financial advisers are being chased by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for failing to join a consumer complaints resolution sche...

Financial planning

Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

Financial planning

Co-operative style financial planning businesses have copped a lot of flak over the past year after a high profile failure in one venture at the end of 1999. John Wilkins...

Financial planning

Rothschild has signed up three managers for its Total Return Fund, a multi-manager alternative investment fund....

Financial planning

New master trust regulations have trapped its first victim after financial planning group Chapel Road was forced to switch master trusts before regulations come in to for...

Financial planning

Snowball has recruited former St George executive Carl Scarcella as general manager of operations as it prepares to unleash its online financial services product on to th...

Financial planning

BT Portfolio Services and Zurich Financial Services have bagged the lion’s share of Investor Group’s outsourcing of support services for its financial planning division, ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed a four-year ban on former Ord Minett Jardine Fleming Futures director and futures adviser Christoph...

Financial planning

</B>Tower Life has committed to paying nearly $250,000 to 42 families previously denied claims on a funeral plan product, following an Australian Securities and Investmen...

Financial planning

AMP has moved another business arm under the umbrella of a British based investment company....

Financial planning

The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) has put its weight behind the Financial Planning Association's (FPA) national compliance program. ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has hit out at the delay of the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), saying the Federal Government should re-examine existin...

Financial planning

A record number of advisers are selling their businesses at the moment. The ones making the big dollars are those who run the most proactive businesses, according to Gran...

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4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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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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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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