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Former sole director of Sonray Capital Markets, Russell Andrew Johnson, has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to seven charges last yea...
Editorial
With post-retirement planning emerging as a major issue in 2014, Andrew Gale argues that there needs to be less focus on products and more focus on advice-based solutions...
Financial planning
ASFA suggests the development of specialised accreditation for planners providing retirement and post-retirement advice....
Financial planning
No-one likes a surprise when wrestling with tax and superannuation, and financial planners heading towards the end of financial year seem primed on what is about to chang...
Financial planning
AXA Investment Managers has picked up a key mandate, announcing that Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA IM's global investment gr...
Financial planning
Synchron has actioned growing its planner numbers on the basis of ASIC’s no-action approach to grandfathering....
Financial planning
Legg Mason has recruited Colin Taylor away from JP Morgan to become Director of Sales, based in Melbourne. ...
Funds management
ASIC begins legal proceedings over failed takeover bid...
Financial planning
The attributes that companies are seeking in financial planners are drastically changing, with sales no longer a must-have skill, writes Milana Pokrajac. ...
Financial planning
Former AustralianSuper chair and now NAB/MLC director receives AIST Trustee Lifetime Achievement Award. ...
Financial planning
Satisfaction from bank customers is at an 18-year high, but that could be about to change....
Financial planning
Regulator permanently bans former authorised representative and director of an investment trustee for misleading and deceptive conduct....
People & Products
Independent investment manager Dalton Nicol Reid has appointed Robert White as its new chief executive officer and head of distribution after Harley Dalton’s departure....
Financial planning
Business of securities adviser subject to an enforceable undertaking has licence cancelled....
Financial planning
AIST president and chair of CareSuper, Cate Wood, has been appointed to replace Sandy Grant as chair of CareSuper....
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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’...
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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...