FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY
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Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....
Financial planning
Capstone has appointed former Bendigo and Adelaide Bank senior manager of financial planning Jamie Johns to lead its push into the accounting marketplace....
Policy & Regulation
The Government has agreed to a FOFA carve-out for commissions paid on time share sales....
Financial planning
Recruitment in the financial services industry is expected to stabilise over the next 12 months after a year of contraction, according to Michael Page International....
Editorial
Rushed financial services reforms such as FOFA and Stronger Super are exacting a heavy toll on financial planners and superannuation funds....
Editorial
Bela Moore and Andrew Tsanadis find some pockets of the financial services industry are hiring while others have brought their recruitment activities to a halt....
Financial planning
After taking more than $150,000 from 100 of his clients, Mayfield-based risk agent Phillip Paddison has received a permanent ban from the financial services industry, ASI...
Superannuation
A draft amendment to the MySuper legislation appears aimed at entrenching some of the existing default superannuation fund regime....
Editorial
With FOFA having passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate, all eyes in the financial services industry will now be turned to ASIC and the consequent shape ...
Accounting
The new limited licensing regime for accountants has received widespread support from the financial services industry....
Financial planning
City Index Australasia and its director Blair Jason Travers have been found guilty in Melbourne's Federal Court of a cold-calling scam that promised to generate returns f...
Financial planning
With submissions being considered by ASIC, it is essential that the financial services industry understands the potential ramifications of removing the current pay-for-ra...
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that the Federal Opposition has signalled some of the so-called ‘concessions’ extracted around the passage of the FOFA bills may not have a life beyond...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Opposition has signalled it remains to be convinced about either introducing or supporting legislation which would restrict the use of the terms 'financial pl...
Life/Risk
Australian Life Insurance Distribution will be required to adhere to additional compliance conditions after ASIC found the company had failed to comply with several condi...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...