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Over 80 per cent of companies listed on the S&P/ASX200 are unable to demonstrate that the board holds responsibility for governing unfair business practices....
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Even though they are yet to become law, the corporate regulator says it will generally accept the Federal Government’s proposed refinements to financial services legislat...
Financial planning
National Australia Bank aims to profit from the trend for financial planners to become mortgage brokers and vice versa, launching a division which provides for the produc...
Superannuation
No one has been particularly surprised at the recent clash which has erupted between industry and retail super funds over the issue of choice, but the DIY super sector ha...
Superannuation
Last June the corporate watchdog went on the attack in the Apple Isle. As most people have probably heard by now, their victim, Hobart based adviser and authorised repres...
Financial planning
The demand for qualified financial planners has increased dramatically in the last 12 months, according to the latest Australasian Banking Salary Survey by Hays....
Superannuation
Anticipating a flood of self-managed superannuation funds being set up after July 1, the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has revised its policy statement PS176 to make it easier for wholesale foreign financial services providers to operat...
Financial planning
Count Financial will introduce a new adviser grading system from July 2006, which will split advisers in the independent financial planning network into three levels, bas...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from an Adelaide man who contravened the Corporations Act when he made unsoli...
Financial planning
While it would seem the American financial consumer likes hands-on help, Australians may want some ’professional distance’, as Ray Griffin investigates....
Financial planning
Claiming to have no knowledge of the existence of Financial Services Reform, applying for a financial services license just days before the new regime was due to kick in ...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has given its campaign to raise the quality of financial advice more impetus, announcing the appointment yesterday of a dedicated...
Financial planning
The former chief executive of UBS Global Asset Management in Australia, John Larum, has taken up the newly created role of Chinese chief executive for the manager as it g...
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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...