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The monitoring and supervision of advisers by dealer groups for FSR compliance is “patchy”, according to Tribeca chief operating officer John Prowse....
Financial planning
A year after the implementation of the financial services reforms, planners are struggling to absorb the costs of compliance, particularly for statements of advice. Advis...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association has called for a three-year deferral of the introduction of dollar fee disclosure regulations on closed financial servic...
Financial planning
The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...
Financial planning
When consultant Pauline Vamos received a copy of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Financial Services Reform (FSR) Policy Statement 181, she was as m...
Financial planning
The country’s largest dealer groups lost the most financial planners in 2004 and according to most of them, Financial Services Reform was to blame....
Editorial
Acquisitions in the accounting education sector and mandates with both the Financial Planning Association and the Australian Stock Exchange have helped Tribeca Learning p...
Financial planning
As part of a plan to offer advisers an in-house direct investment capability, independent dealer group Mawson Securities has bought Adelaide based stockbroking and invest...
Financial planning
Listed financial services group DKN Financial has restructured a brace of senior roles to address the imminent departure of its dealership head and drive the business for...
Financial planning
Fund manager performance and investment style consistency have been identified as key factors in attracting fund flows, however manager reputation also has a strong influ...
Financial planning
Minister for revenue and assistant treasurer Mal Brough has sought to reassure employers that they will not be unnecessarily burdened by choice of fund requirements, incl...
Financial planning
In what represents one of the largest corporate superannuation outsourcing arrangements ever to occur in Australia, the big News Limited superannuation fund, NewsSuper, h...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association will offer an assessment and quality accreditation facility for entry level financial education providers, inching the association a st...
Financial planning
Reforms to Australia’s financial services sector have left the country’s capital markets in a better position than most other OECD nations, according to a new report from...
Superannuation
People running self-managed superannuation funds need to review their position with respect to compliance at least three or four times a year, according to specialist sup...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
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...