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Two financial planners who dishonestly sold migrants in south-west Sydney tax-effective investment plans have been banned permanently by the Australian Securities and Inv...

Financial planning

An adviser who failed to disclose a financial interest in Melbourne stockbroking firms he recommended for clients to invest in has been permanently banned from providing ...

Financial planning

Financial planners providing tax advice have come under the spotlight of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission who released new guidance today to ensure pr...

Financial planning

A Melbourne man, David Foulds, has been placed on an 18-month good behaviour bond and ordered to pay $1,500 to charity after pleading guilty to charges of having breached...

Financial planning

All eyes and ears will be on Kathryn Greiner as she takes over the chairmanship of the FPA at the association’s annual convention. But as REBECCA EVANS reports, she’s rea...

Superannuation

Are your clients heading north? Owen Weeks explores why the great Australian exodus could spell disaster for retirees. ROSS KELLY investigates....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has developed a new software program that channels superannuation contributions to various funds in an attempt to lighten the administrative load that ...

Financial planning

Investors have been warned to be on guard against the promotion of illegal investment schemes after new figures suggested overseas scamsters had stepped up their activity...

Financial planning

Russell Investment Group will hand over the administration of one of Australia’s oldest corporate superannuation funds in April next year after AMP declared it was transf...

Financial planning

Fledging financial services software company Bravura Solutions added Syscorp to its takeover menu today as well as finalising the acquisition of another major software pr...

Financial planning

ING Australia has finalised the restructure of its distribution operations with the appointment today of Sealcorp director of distribution and sales Dan Powell into the n...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has formed a new advisory committee to assist the Australian Taxation Office in devising an education campaign ahead of the implementation of the c...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has bolstered its fledgling fund ratings team to research non-traditional areas of the managed investments arena such as mortgage trusts, multi-ma...

Financial planning

Advisers and dealer groups who flout the new industry code of practice on soft dollar payments may be publicly ‘outed’ by the financial planning association (FPA)....

Financial planning

With higher levels of divorce and less emphasis on leaving behind a large inheritance, the baby boomers are finding testamentary trusts a useful estate planning tool....

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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 ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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