FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

South Korea’s free trade agreement with Australia will open the door for unprecedented skill transfers from the local financial services sector, according to the FSC. ...

Superannuation

Specialist SMSF administrator SuperGuardian has been appointed by online broker Bell Direct to manage its integrated SMSF solution. ...

People & Products

Swiss Re senior executive Helen Troup named as incoming CommInsure executive general manager ...

Financial planning

Milana Pokrajac looks at some of the challenges and opportunities financial planners can expect over the next 12 months. ...

Editorial

While there are many loose ends associated with the Future of Financial Advice regime, Mike Taylor writes that the Government should avoid allowing its Financial Systems ...

Financial planning

ASIC releases enforcement report for second half of 2013 reporting 340 enforcement actions....

Financial planning

Former ASIC officer turned consultant calls for standardised, regulated SOA document....

Financial planning

Law firm Gadens appoints Anthony Walsh as Banking and Finance partner....

Financial planning

Victims of the Trio/Astarra fraud express anger at the release from jail of Shawn Richard....

Financial planning

Trio-linked adviser Ross Tarrant has appealed his seven-year ban from the industry, also criticising Labor MP Steve Jones for political point-scoring over the issue....

Financial planning

The threat of regulatory change has outranked cyber crime and PR disasters as the greatest risk to the financial services industry, a survey shows. ...

Financial planning

It would be surprising if vertical integration was not addressed in the upcoming Financial System Inquiry, according to managing partner of Tria Investment Partners, Andr...

Editorial

In a bidding war that has lasted much of the year, The Trust Company board recently advised its shareholders to reject the latest takeover proposal by Equity Trustees in ...

Editorial

Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...

Editorial

Throughout 2013, ASIC executives repeatedly used AAA Financial Intelligence as an example of how not to run a financial planning dealer group....

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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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