FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

To shed some light on the myriad of tax changes about to significantly alter the way advisers do business, the Strategist Group is conducting a number of seminars which w...

Financial planning

Two thousand years ago when the money lenders in Israel had finished celebrating the start of a new Millennium and were considering their business plans, few of them woul...

Financial planning

The first database to include all players in the financial services industry, including advisers and dealer groups could soon become a reality....

Financial planning

Industry pundits believe that planning groups and fund managers could be set for a tough year in 2000, following 1999 buying revelry. Samantha Walker investigates just wh...

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services (AFS) is claiming a first for a dealer group, by set-ting up an initiative aimed at filling the gap between a planner’s technical prowess an...

Financial planning

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has fired a broadside at the Federal Opposition for delaying important reforms to financial services industry regulation....

Financial planning

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has fired a broadside at the Federal Opposition for delaying important reforms to financial services industry regulation....

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services is to concentrate on organic growth to further develop its Australian business....

Financial planning

Kevin Wyld is one of the faces behind Beacon Investment Services, which is to be officially launched at the Financial Planning Association’s convention in Sydney next mon...

Financial planning

The changing face of Australia's financial services and those using them has meant the role of the financial planner is greater than ever. As a result if the sale pitches...

Financial planning

It has been a tough couple of years for Sealcorp since being acquired by St George Bank back in December 1997. But with a new chief executive and a fresh team of senior e...

Financial planning

There are a number of anomalies that you come across when you examine the op-eration of the Australian superannuation system. ...

Financial planning

Competition in the financial services industry is extremely tough at the moment and more than ever companies are fighting hard to retain good staff. This is even more evi...

Financial planning

For years the Australian financial services industry has looked across the Pacific for future trends, but none of the US behemoths have grabbed a stranglehold on the reta...

People & Products

Rod Smith is to take over from inaugural Financial Services Complaints Resolu-tion Scheme (FSCRS) council chairperson Moira Rayner as the FSCRS moves to ex-pand membershi...

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

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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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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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