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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
The sole director of Seabay Investments has personally guaranteed to repay a percentage of debts totalling around $18 million to 50 investors....
Financial planning
Forthcoming governments will be prevented from raiding the Future Fund under legislation introduced to Federal Parliament defining the parameters within which the new fun...
Financial planning
Two former directors of failed Sydney securities dealing company Australian Investors Forum (AIF) have been ordered to pay $3.6 million in compensation to AIF and related...
Financial planning
A man who placed advertisements in a Sydney newspapers using the catch-phrase "superannuation cashback" has appeared in Sydney's Central Local Court charged with 22 count...
Financial planning
ASIC has launched Federal Court action against the directors of a failed Victorian vendor of equity release products that put the financial security of at least 120 inves...
Financial planning
Product issuers no longer have to include general advice warnings in advertisements that provide generic financial advice, and planners may soon be relieved from having t...
Financial planning
A new project will examine the value of independent advice and will determine the number of Australian financial advisers that consider themselves to be independent, as w...
Financial planning
There is a degree of confusion by some practitioners in the financial planning and accountancy fields as to the ability of an accountant to give advice to a client of the...
Financial planning
An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been placed in receivership by order of the Federal Court....
Financial planning
A client’s divorce can be a financial planning opportunity, as long as you can avoid the minefields. Liam Egan reports...
Financial planning
An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has relaxed the rules relating to licensing, conduct and disclosure requirements for superannuation calculators....
Financial planning
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has said it wants to encourage whistle-blowing in the financial services sector and expects the institutions it administers...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...