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Financial planning

IOOF will pay former AM Corporation management “the high end of the $12.6 million scale” of a funds under management retention deal struck when AM Corp was acquired by th...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services Australia is set to lose a key executive with the resignation of investment management and life risk business head Peter Delprado, who will depa...

Financial planning

Tranzact Financial Services, previously Beacon Financial Services, is aiming to buy-back the 60 per cent stake in superannuation administration firm Australia First Finan...

Financial planning

Australians have been duped into investing millions of dollars with companies based in Western Samoa and Mauritius after an Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

Financial planning

Listed investment company, Aberdeen Leaders, has sold a significant portion of its underlying stock holdings in order to lock in unrealised market gains and pre-pay half ...

Superannuation

Rudy Haddad finds out what ‘gainfully employed’ really means....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has signed a deal with Newcastle Permanent Building Society to badge BT’s wrap suite as the core platform within the NSW central coast firm’s wealth ma...

Financial planning

ING Australia has created four new business units and restructured its executive line-up as part of a strategy to better capitalise on its major distribution channels....

Financial planning

The former director of a Queensland-based early release superannuation scheme has appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on 21 charges of fraud brought by an Australi...

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services licencees have been granted relief from some restrictive constraints under Corporations Law relating to the treatment of cash common funds....

Financial planning

Superannuation fund administrator CitiStreet Australia has struck a deal with global consulting group Watson Wyatt with the pair signing a ‘long-term’ agreement....

Editorial

Money might not be gushing into individually managed accounts, but there are a range of providers that strongly believe in the sector. Kate Kachor spoke to some groups th...

Financial planning

Melbourne-based boutique hedge fund firm K2 Asset Management has announced plans to close its Australian absolute return fund to avoid triggering potential capacity and l...

Financial planning

Three more fund managers - Zurich, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Asgard - have rolled out Term Allocated Pension products just in time for government legislation all...

Financial planning

Financial planners and other financial services providers who sell products over the phone or in other ‘time critical’ situations have had their compliance burden reduced...

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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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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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