FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Choosing the most influential people in the financial services industry is a task fraught with difficulty....

Financial planning

The ‘who owns the client’ debate refuses to lie down and the Privacy Act appears to be fuelling the fire. JULIE BENNETT reports....

Financial planning

The opportunity to take an equity stake is one of the most important features advisers look for when choosing a master trust or wrap. But could it leave the financial pla...

Financial planning

Westpac wealth management group executive David Clarke yesterday confirmed what the financial services industry had long guessed ? the Sagitta name will be dropped in fav...

People & Products

Schroder Investment Management Australia has appointed Adrian Whittingham to the role of business development manager (BDM)....

Financial planning

IN THE middle of last week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released a report which was a review of the disclosure of fees and charges within ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) says the use of past performance figures in advertising should include a five year return figure, be calculate...

Financial planning

WHILE it was the year Money Management was born, most people’s strongest memories centre around market upheavals – the 1987 sharemarket crash in particular....

Financial planning

VAN Eyk Research has enjoyed a long and illustrious reputation in financial services industry and deservedly so....

Financial planning

The financial services industry’s preparations for a move to the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) regime could be thrown into disarray after crucial new regulations w...

Financial planning

A NEW business coaching program has seen AXA lift new business inflows from its advisers by 28 per cent....

Financial planning

VAN EYK Research has expanded the number of shareholders in the group, boosting the level of external ownership of the research house to 32 per cent....

Financial planning

It is funny how often things come full circle in the financial services industry. The latest example is what can be increasingly seen as a trend amongst Australia’s major...

Financial planning

Technology firm Supercorp has launched an administration system called SuperVisor II, which it developed in conjunction with boutique dealer group Fiducian Group, to a wi...

Financial planning

OFM Investment Group chief executive Michael Rehak has resigned and will be replaced by former Coles Myer property general manger Rick Curtis....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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