FINANCIAL ADVISER

Financial planning

Financial planning industries around the world are facing unique challenges. KATE KACHOR reports on how the Japanese, US and UK financial planning industries are respondi...

Financial planning

Recent amendments to the Family Law Act enabling divorced couples to split their superannuation brings a new level of complexity for financial advisers. NABIL WAHHAB repo...

Financial planning

Deakin Financial Services Group has undergone a major capital raising exercise to fund its plans for an increased presence nationally....

Financial planning

Australia’s financial services industry is poised for further rationalisation as Suncorp Metway goes on the acquisition trail....

Financial planning

Very few people in the industry would have failed to notice the push to higher education standards that have been going on in recent years, especially after it received a...

Financial planning

Bridges Financial Services has made two appointments to expand its business development team....

Financial planning

South Australian financial adviser Graeme Edward Smith Hall has been permanently banned from acting as a representative of a securities dealer by the Australian Securitie...

Financial planning

A former ABN AMRO Morgans proper authority holder is the latest financial adviser to be permanently banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

Norwich Union has taken the master trust sector’s battle for recognition directly into people’s living rooms, with an unorthodox new television advertising campaign aimed...

Financial planning

In the first week of January ASIC has banned one financial adviser for a year and another two investment advisers for life, reconfirming its commitment in 2002 to protect...

Financial planning

HSBC has enhanced its SuperOptions superannuation and allocated pension product range by introducing new trail commissions in what it says is a drive “to attract and reta...

Financial planning

AMP has shored up its UK operations by launching a single marketing group to unify access to products from three of its UK brands: AMP Pearl, AMP London Life and AMP NPI....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has capped off a busy year with the announcement that it has banned 30 advisers and jailed 25 people it descri...

Financial planning

More Australians than ever before are taking control of investing their own super, leading to a rapid rise in the number of self-managed superannuation funds....

Accounting

Advisers must ready themselves for a wide range of issues before choosing to join with an accountancy firm, however the venture can boost both the number and quality of r...

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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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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed who will succeed Stephen Jones to serve as the Assistant Treasurer and Financial Services Minister. ...

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ASIC has permanently banned a former Perth adviser after he made “materially misleading” statements to induce investors. ...

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The corporate regulator has cancelled the AFSL of a Queensland-based financial services provider, having held the licence since mid-2016....

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