FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

A new wine investment scheme is being promoted as a customer loyalty plan for financial advisers, with investors getting their returns in the form of bottles of wine....

Life/Risk

The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...

Financial planning

A breakaway dealer group has achieved success through hands-on adviser involvement. Kate Kachor reports....

Editorial

Advisers face many choices when building a portfolio, but as Ross Kelly finds, putting all your eggs in one basket can be risky....

Financial planning

CHOOSING the Money Management/Tribeca Communications Business Development Manager (BDM) of the Year is, as it was last year, a task fraught with difficulty....

Financial planning

This year will see the FSRA come into force in financial planning practices everywhere, but what else is on the agenda? JULIE BENNETT reports....

Financial planning

The Parlimentary Secretary to the Treasurer Ross Cameron has ordered an investigation into adviser access to client files and remuneration after Brisbane based advisory g...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has warned that the salaried financial advisers of banking institutions may not have to disclose all the influences inducing t...

Financial planning

Queensland-based international investment group, LM Investment Management has been added to Asgard Capital Management’s investment menu line-up....

Financial planning

Skandia has become the first customer in Australia to sign-up to Morningstar’s Portfolio X-Ray tool - an instrument that details fund aggregate portfolio asset allocation...

Funds management

Almost two-thirds of financial advisers polled in a recent survey remain confident equity markets will continue to rise this year....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Queensland-based adviser for investing $1.3 million of client assets through an unlicensed Philip...

Financial planning

Budding software group Online Business Technologies (OBT) has signed its first major financial services client after aligning with Zurich Financial Services Australia to ...

Financial planning

Financial planners believe that managed funds research houses should provide more information on market trends and institutional ownership is a conflict of interest, acco...

People & Products

Australian Financial Services (AFS), which has been without a full-time managing director since August, has appointed insurance group OAMPS Financial Management chief exe...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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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...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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