FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
Policy & Regulation
The FPA has denounced efforts in the Senate to disallow amendments to FOFA predicting changes will automatically place advisers in breach of the law....
Financial planning
A former Storm Financial adviser has had a charge against him dropped after an elderly witness deemed critical to the prosecution’s case died, ASIC reports. ...
Financial planning
A Victorian financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services for seven years after an ASIC investigation found he had breached “numerous financial serv...
Financial planning
Advisory firms will need to examine how they communicate risk to clients under FOFA and not trust that old methods will still be suitable in the future. ...
Financial planning
The time is ripe for Australian superannuation funds and the financial services sector to start looking towards Asia and playing in this region....
Editorial
While plenty of attention has been directed towards advisers and the sale of life/risk products, Mike Taylor writes that a recent ASIC Review of general insurance has rev...
Financial planning
A newly-launched website wants to turn the financial services industry “on its head” by data matching consultants with firms for a 10 per cent cut of their paycheck. ...
Awards
Lisa Barber has been named Money Management and Super Review’s financial planner of the year....
Financial planning
Financial services companies are almost matching government regulatory costs with their own self-inflicted rules, and effectively “choking themselves in red tape”....
Financial planning
Growing numbers of applications for AWI Ventures’ Fintech accelerator program are a testament to the innovation in the financial services sector, the company believes....
People & Products
MetLife Insurance has made three appointments to its Australian leadership team, including the creation of a new role....
People & Products
Managed Accounts Holdings Limited has announced a newly-created head of product role....
Financial planning
Politicians tasked with raising education and professional standards in the financial advice sector are being urged by the FPA. to “look beyond the noise” of vested inter...
Financial planning
Adviser competency and professional standards would be boosted by the formation of a new adviser-funded body that sets standards for different advice segments, the Financ...
Life/Risk
A NSW insurance broker has been permanently banned from providing financial services after an ASIC investigation found he engaged in “dishonest conduct”....
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...