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Financial planning

Former Commonwealth Bank (CBA) senior executive John Mulcahy has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of Suncorp Metway....

Financial planning

FORMER Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph has joined with the former chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Financial planning

SEPARATELY managed account (SMA) provider Direct Portfolio will move beyond its direct investor approach and seek financial planners who are willing to use the product wi...

Funds management

St George Group today appointed Nick Basile to the new position of head of investments and insurance in an attempt to drive the group’s wealth management division forward...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified a former executive director of an insurance management group from acting as a trustee of any supera...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) today announced that the currently vacant role of deputy chief executive officer will be filled by NSP Buck execu...

Financial planning

Competition amongst Australia’s providers of retail funds management research is set to intensify, with two minor players renewing their push for a bigger slice of the bu...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) says the use of past performance figures in advertising should include a five year return figure, be calculate...

Financial planning

LOWELL Flinders, the dealer group headed up by long-standing industry figure and former Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair John Godfrey, is seeking to expand and ...

Financial planning

From its birth only three years ago, Matrix Financial Group has established a successful network of financial advisers. BARBARA MESSER reports....

Financial planning

A psychologist will be provided to clients of a new personal advisory company, Mentor, to increase advisor ability to make the right choice of investment for individual c...

Financial planning

Mercer Investment Consulting has backed up its push into the retail funds management research scene with the announcement of three new recruits today....

Financial planning

The back-to-basics push in Australia’s master trust industry is set to continue with the launch last week by ING Australia of its OneAnswer platform....

Financial planning

Compulsory choice of funds in superannuation is not only a contradiction in terms but will also be defeated if investors chose to use a default fund, which is usually an ...

Financial planning

It is funny how often things come full circle in the financial services industry. The latest example is what can be increasingly seen as a trend amongst Australia’s major...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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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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