FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

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....

People & Products

Following the recent appointment of Brad Cooper, Aberdeen Asset Management Australia managing director Brett Jollie has joined the Financial Services Council (FSC) board....

Editorial

With Parliament prorogued and the advice reform agenda incomplete, many in the financial services industry are left wondering ‘what now?’, writes Cecilia Storniolo....

Rate the raters

If a product receives a glowing review by a research house and subsequently fails, should the research house be partly responsible? The Parliamentary Joint Committee rece...

Superannuation

Federal Treasurer Chris Bowen has expressed concern about the future of the superannuation guarantee increase from 9 to 12 per cent under the Coalition Government. ...

Editorial

IOOF Holdings report a $79.8 million net profit for the year ended 30 June following acquisition growth and improvements in productivity....

Superannuation

Federal Treasurer knocks back financial services inquiry if Government re-elected....

Editorial

Financial planner recruitment and migration within the financial services industry is virtually on hold until after the 7 September Federal Election....

Financial planning

ASIC is proposing to step away from approving training courses for financial advisers, leaving it to education providers to self-assess their own courses....

Editorial

There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...

Editorial

In a two-horse race at the forthcoming Federal Election, Mike Taylor writes that financial services companies are mainly backing self-interest. ...

Financial planning

Key elements of the Government’s financial services agenda have been rendered still-born by the election....

Superannuation

Newly elected FSC chairman Greg Cooper said the Coalition’s financial services policies would deliver certainty and stability to Australian retirees....

Superannuation

FSC urges use of Treasury inter-generational report as basis for five-year super policy settings. ...

Financial planning

The role of the ‘platform’ continues to be at the heart of the provision of financial advice to Australians, both young and old....

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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 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. ...

3 weeks 6 days ago

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...

1 week 2 days ago

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

2 weeks 5 days ago