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In response to industry confusion, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has clarified that authorised representatives do need to identify their Australian...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has called for changes to be made to the Financial Services Reform Act to ease the burden of compliance on financial planners and make ...

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Financial planning

Members of the Financial Planning Association will be expected to separately disclose the cost of advice from the cost of an investment product to their clients from Janu...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has issued new prudential standards governing the issue of outsourcing that are applicable to life insurance companies, aut...

Financial planning

Westpac Financial Planning has now completed the implementation of its advisory administrative tool known as the Leading Edge Advice Platform....

Financial planning

Pax Financial Group will now operate as part of the Tandem Financial Advice dealer group after relinquishing its own Australian Financial Services Licence....

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ING and self-managed super fund service provider Super Concepts have introduced a new instrument called One2super to help financial advisers provide better services to th...

Financial planning

ING Financial Planning and ING’s largest dealer group, RetireInvest, will be combining their back-office operations from January, next year....

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Financial planning

The recent enforceable undertaking imposed on AMP Financial Planning by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has potentially made compliance with financia...

Financial planning

A new Sydney-based boutique funds management group called Pinnacle Investment Management has been established by Wilson HTM Investment Group and will be headed up by form...

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