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Investor worries about financial markets are under control while market return expectations have jumped, writes Recep Peker....

Editorial

There is more than a little hypocrisy in calls by law firms for people to avoid using bank financial planners, given the reality that the commercial practices pursued by ...

Financial planning

A soundly-based adviser/client relationship offering real value will ultimately withstand clients’ disappointment with negative fluctuations on the share market, writes R...

Financial planning

Australia’s growing “class action mentality” and the emergence of litigation funders have created fertile ground for claims against participants in the financial services...

Financial planning

The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....

Financial planning

FOFA regulations require planners to outline platform and investment choices in SOAs....

Financial planning

A former WealthSure planner who has been ordered to pay $1.7 million in damages to a client is unlikely to pay the claim after he declared himself bankrupt....

Life/Risk

Australian consumers are more engaged with life insurance than ever before, which could be the cause of increased lapse rates, according to chief executive officer of TAL...

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....

People & Products

Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA), part of the netwealth Advice group, has appointed Peter Boston as national advice manager, the final addition to its new exe...

Accounting

Former WHK group chief executive stands down....

Financial planning

Planners encouraged to assess research house compliance with new regulatory standard....

Superannuation

ASIC’s SMSF taskforce finds some disturbing features within low-balance SMSFs....

Financial planning

ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from WA-based dealer group WealthSure, with former CEO Darren Pawski banned from the industry....

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