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Financial planning

Change in Government to spur on hiring appetite

The recent change in Government could help to boost business confidence and increase hiring across the banking and financial services sector, according to Hays Banking di...

Funds management

A former property development company director has been jailed

Clestus Weerappah has been sentenced to four years jail over his role in the collapse of property development group Dollarforce Financial Services (DFS) in 2009....

Funds management

ETF growth being driven by adviser mind shift

ETFs have hit record highs on inflows as advisers make them a central part of portfolio plays....

Financial planning

Former Opes Prime director found not guilty

Former Opes Prime Stockbroking director Julian Smith has been found not guilty of dishonestly breaching his duties as director in the Victorian Supreme Court. ...

Financial planning

NAB Asset Servicing retains UBS mandate

NAB Asset Servicing has renewed its custody mandate with UBS Global Asset Management....

Superannuation

AMP unsuccessful at product cross-sell

New research shows AMP Group has had very little success at selling banking products to its superannuation customers, unlike the Big Four. ...

Financial planning

Wickham Securities chairman cops ban

Bradley Thomas Sherwin, the bankrupt chairman of Wickham Securities, has been banned from the financial services industry for more than two and a half years....

Financial planning

Re-elect existing FPA board, says incumbent director

Incumbent FPA board member Peter O’Toole calls for the re-election of the FPA board and an end to bickering among the various categories of planners....

Superannuation

Are reversionary pensions still worthwhile?

Daniel Butler from DBA Lawyers lists pros and cons of auto-reversionary pensions. ...

Financial planning

Insider trading conviction a warning to company directors, says ASIC Commissioner

The former chairman of failed Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited has been convicted of insider trading and fined $50,000 following an investigation by the Australian ...

People & Products

Challenger appoints national key account manager

Former IOOF head of investment research Paul O’Connor has joined Challenger as national key account manager....

Funds management

What makes Australians wealthy?

New ABS data confirms that home ownership and super are the main contributors to Australian household wealth....

Superannuation

Superannuation director rules you need to know

If you have advised that superannuation is tax deductible to your director-client and they do not have in place whatever their rules require, your advice will have been w...