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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) warns ignorance is no defence for holders of Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSLs) that fail to ensu...

Financial planning

A former director of the troubled hospitality industry Employees Productivity Award Superannuation Fund has been sentenced to three years jail-term by a Queensland Distri...

Policy & Regulation

Superannuation industry figure Barbara Smith has on the eve of the Federal Budget urged Treasurer Peter Costello to remove some of the taxes on super funds because they a...

Financial planning

The new generation of high performance BDMs will be highly sought after in the market, but require more support than their predecessors, PETER DAWSON says....

Financial planning

Property was hot in 2003, but can it keep up the momentum?...

Funds management

Pengana Capital is planning to launch a new long-short absolute return hedge fund that will invest in global real estate later this financial year....

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning is rolling a further 10 to 20 per cent of its advisers over to a fee for service remuneration model adding to the initial 10 per cent who made the ...

People & Products

InTech Research has tempted former Frank Russell consulting director David McMahon out of semi-retirement to join as its director of consulting....

People & Products

ANZ has appointed former ING Advice and Dealer Groups executive director, Mike Goodall to head up its advice business following the decision late last year by incumbent g...

Financial planning

ING Australia is close to finalising the structure of its sales and distribution management team with the appointment of ANZ’s James Dudfield into the newly created head ...

Financial planning

Mercer Wealth Solutions has consolidated its position within the broader group with the appointment of a full-time head and a new chief financial adviser....

Financial planning

ING will re-brand its wrap services across its business under a single name, PortfolioOne, after relaunching the products to its internal and external adviser clients lat...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued five compliance guidelines to the market offering practical advice to operators of managed investme...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put institutions with aligned advisers on notice after a recent surveillance project found that commission...

Financial planning

The number of Australians investing in superannuation is at its highest level since December 1997 despite a lack of investor enthusiasm to pump more money into super, acc...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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