DIRECTOR

Financial planning

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

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

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

Financial planning

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

Superannuation

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

Financial planning

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

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

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

Financial planning

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

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

Funds management

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

Superannuation

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...

Financial planning

Former Lionsgate representative permanently banned....

Financial planning

Synchron’s John Prossor claims a repeat of the AFS brokerage losses can be avoided by paying advisers without delay....

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months 2 weeks ago

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

7 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 days 13 hours ago

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...

3 weeks ago

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

1 week 4 days ago