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Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has declared its membership is geared for Financial Services Reform (FSR), with 97 per cent of its principal members having recei...
Financial planning
Sealcorp will not pitch its low cost platform, Elements, into the market on the basis of price, stating such a move would reduce it to the level of a commodity, according...
Life/Risk
Tower Australia has revised the commission structures, product definitions, features and ease of gaining coverage across its risk insurance products and yesterday unveile...
Superannuation
Financial advisers and accountants may still benefit from establishing strategic alliances with each other in relation to providing advice on self managed super funds (SM...
Financial planning
ProQuest will change its name to FinaMetrica Limited from early February after extensive growth in offshore markets drove the need for a change in branding and marketing ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned it will crack down on any organisation continuing to operate post-March 10 without a valid Australi...
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition has criticised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for providing an exemption from the Financial Services Reform regime to mortgag...
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition is claiming a key victory on dollar disclosure within the new Financial Services Reform regime, following the passage last week of amendments to th...
Financial planning
It appears that employees within the Australian financial services industry can breathe easier after the release of the latest quarterly TMP Worldwide Job Index, though t...
Financial planning
The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has issued a reminder there are only three months before the new Financial Services Reform regime takes effect and is urging practitioners to apply...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Reform regime is creating demand for planners with a different skill set. Mike Taylor and Lucie Beaman report....
Financial planning
Q: I am the nominated responsible officer of our Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL). What am I responsible for and what am I potentially liable for?...
Financial planning
National Australia Bank-owned MLC has been has been granted 13 Australian Financial Services (AFS) licenses by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)...
Funds management
The funds management industry has been lambasted for its “uninspiring” lack of product innovation - a situation if not righted that will push more and more clients into d...
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Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...