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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reiterated its calls for the Federal Government to enshrine the term 'financial adviser/planner' in legislation, but in sl...
Financial planning
Collapsing institutions and a loss of wealth have combined to give the margin lending industry a bad reputation. Angela Faherty explains why increased legislation and a m...
People & Products
Liquidators have been appointed to Empower Invest and Newcastle Palais Holdings - two companies that operated an unregistered managed investment scheme - after the compan...
Financial planning
Independent financial planning firm Financial Spectrum has split its business in two, with the spin-off arm Spectrum Wealth Advisers experiencing rapid growth since the s...
Financial planning
The Federal Treasury appears to have left open the question of a statutory compensation scheme covering financial planners, with a review due for completion in January st...
Financial planning
A Perth-based property funds responsible entity has had its AFSL cancelled by ASIC....
Financial planning
Century Funds Management has failed to replace Opus Capital as manager of the troubled Opus 21 property fund, after an insufficient number of unitholders voted on the mat...
Financial planning
The consequences of breaching fiduciary duty under the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms could be much steeper than first thought, with the pos...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revised the internal dispute resolution (IRD) procedures for financial institutions to help reduce paperwo...
Financial planning
ASIC has taken action against four websites that make false and misleading claims or provide financial services without an AFSL....
Superannuation
Industry fund LUCRF Super has announced it will streamline its intra-fund advice process with the adoption of Provisio Technologies’ rapid advice delivery software....
Financial planning
Club Plus Super's in-house financial planning service has proved to be invaluable, according to the company's chief executive Paul Cahill....
Financial planning
An in-house financial planning service in super funds is a better option for members who receive more personal service and build their understanding of financial issues, ...
Financial planning
An in-house financial planning service in super funds is a better option for members who receive more personal service and build their understanding of financial issues, ...
Financial planning
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has taken a largely sympathetic approach to an option within a Treasury options paper to alter the Australian F...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...