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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...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association’s new conflicts of interest principles do not go far enough to ensure compliant advice, according to Australian Securities and Investme...
Financial planning
Most superannuation product providers have recently issued deficient product disclosure statements, the corporate regulator has discovered....
Financial planning
Mariner Financial has moved to boost sales of its equity release product by entering a strategic deal with three dealer groups to offer the products to clients, and launc...
Financial planning
Investors in Glebe Asset Management will have their funds paid out to them after the ethical investment manager, which put itself up for sale last October, failed to find...
Financial planning
Another desktop advisory software provider has entered the financial planning arena after signing a contract with a mid-sized, Sydney-based independent dealer group to he...
Financial planning
Australia’s biggest dealer group, AMP Financial Planning, has endorsed the Financial Planning Association’s principles on conflicts of interest by forming a taskforce to ...
Financial planning
Year-end tax planning is important for individuals and businesses at all levels. Apart from the traditional approach - that is deferring income and advancing deductions w...
Financial planning
Remuneration levels, reasonably priced professional indemnity insurance, good training facilities, product research and technical support are the five top criteria financ...
Funds management
Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has delivered an upbeat assessment of hybrid property products....
Financial planning
Leading financial services industry figures involved in discussions regarding disclosure at the ASIC Summer School have agreed disclosure practices must be plainer and ea...
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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...