FINANCIAL SERVICES REFORM

Financial planning

Fifteen years is a long time to be doing the same thing but in August this year Money Management entered into its 15th year of providing consistent and regular coverage o...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called on the Government to offer incentives and assistance to financial planners in transitioning their businesses over into...

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

Only those living under a rock can claim unfamiliarity with the dismal financial predictions for today’s workers....

Financial planning

Indy Singh has built a business based on vision and a fax. BARBARA MESSER spoke with him about his vision and the contents of the fax....

Financial planning

Financial planning dealer groups are using a combination of the new privacy regulations and the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) to stop departing financial planners ...

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will begin a series of campaigns targeting commissions and disclosure in a three-pronged strategy as part of i...

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) licensing web will snare a growing number of unsuspecting professionals employed outside the realm of financ...

Financial planning

Employment opportunities within the Australian financial services sector are continuing to hold strong amid the current global economic climate, figures from the latest T...

Financial planning

Independent, small planning businesses and dealer groups have asked for a clearer set of compliance processes under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA), removing wha...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will release a discussion paper about disclosure on socially responsible investment (SRI) products which could...

Life/Risk

Are you thinking that risk insurance is not the force it once was? Well it may be time to think again as the product that built the industry re-asserts itself. JASON SPIT...

Financial planning

ING will merge its nine distribution outlets into three dealer groups, with RetireInvest the only brand to retain its name and identity after the shakeup....

Financial planning

While the honeymoon is over between financial planners and accountants, the issue of estate planning has forced the two back together, throwing in solicitors for good mea...

Financial planning

The biggest influence on the back office technology provided to financial planners over the last year had nothing to do with bytes, modems or memory....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

2 weeks ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

3 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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