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Auditor KPMG has defended itself against claims that it had some responsibility for the losses incurred by investors in the failed Westpoint group of companies....
Life/Risk
Overseas organisations are posing a threat to the integrity and equitable operation of the domestic insurance market, according to the head of one of Australia’s leading ...
Superannuation
Western Australian-based dealer group Wealthsure has entered into an agreement to use Multiport software in the administration of its clients’ self-managed superannuation...
Financial planning
ASIC is currently examining whether further regulation is specifically needed for platforms, although at present it is unclear whether they should be defined as a product...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is currently working on a project that aims to crackdown on people providing unlicensed financial advice....
Financial planning
The Government hopes the current round of refinements to Financial Services Reform (FSR), which it plans to make law by December 2006, will finalise the regulations and o...
Financial planning
The SMS Advising Group has had its Australian Financial Services Licence revoked by ASIC....
Financial planning
No platform provider is now without the ‘baby’ or ‘lite’ version of the full service wrap. In most cases, these ‘lite’ platforms have attracted substantial inflows withou...
Financial planning
The FPA has welcomed a reported increase in the number of breach of licence notifications received by the corporate regulator from the financial services industry....
Financial planning
Australian Agribusiness Group (AAG) has produced the first set of ratings evaluating the top managers of agribusiness managed investment schemes....
Financial planning
The FPA is confident the industry will overcome conditions that led to a ‘statements of advice’ failure in the ASIC’s 2006 ‘shadow shopper’ survey on superannuation advic...
Financial planning
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Jeffrey Lucy has defended the regulator’s enforcement of financial services laws after its shadow shoppin...
Superannuation
The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...
Superannuation
BT Financial Group has become the latest entrant into the self-managed superannuation administration market, launching a service to administer SMSF funds and small Austra...
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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...