FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

An education and research fund has slipped though the cracks in the imminent transition of market supervision from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to the Austral...

People & Products

Financial services industry stalwart Eric Dodd has been appointed as chairman of Snowball Group....

Editorial

IFSA doesn't have the numbers to be able to claim it represents the financial services industry, so its recent name change is just a rebranding, writes Mike Taylor....

People & Products

Zurich New Zealand has appointed Adrian Riminton as the new head of Zurich's New Zealand operations, commencing 19 July....

Financial planning

Vanguard chairman and chief executive William McNabb has argued that simplicity, transparency and candour are the keys to regaining investors' trust....

Financial planning

The past two years have been hard hitting for the financial services career market. Ashleigh McIntyre takes a look at what is driving its recovery....

Editorial

Employers may have started hiring again, but that doesn't mean the global financial crisis is over, writes Mike Taylor....

Financial planning

The Government has welcomed regulations prescribing short and simple product disclosure documents for margin loans, superannuation and simple managed investment schemes....

Financial planning

Matrix Planning Solutions' Rick Di Cristoforo examines the pros and cons of the age-old investment debate: property or shares?...

Financial planning

Australian financial institutions are still under represented in emerging Asian markets, while merger and acquisition activity is set to increase globally....

Financial planning

The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has launched a new professional designation for the financial services industry, one that could test the relevanc...

People & Products

Macquarie Adviser Services’ technical services team, MAStech, appoints Julie Fox as a new technical manager....

People & Products

Contango MicroCap has appointed Boyd Peters to the newly created role of national distribution manager....

Editorial

The failures of various agribusiness managed investment schemes have created problems for the planning industry....

People & Products

One of Australia's leading wealth advisory firms, Centric Wealth, announces two new appointments to its technical research team....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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

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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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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