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Editorial
Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...
Financial planning
ASIC uses its submission to the Ripoll Inquiry to suggest more regulatory intervention and higher licensing and fiduciary standards for planners....
Financial planning
MLC has used its submission to the Ripoll Inquiry to call for a comprehensive review of the Financial Services Reform Act, saying the FSR is working against its original ...
Financial planning
ASIC should use the same regulatory powers it used for intra-fund advice to more aggressively manage investment strategies, according to a submission to the Ripoll Inquir...
Financial planning
The FPA chief executive and chair have written to the parliamentarians reviewing financial services urging a restoration of confidence in planning....
Financial planning
Financial services lawyer Peter Bobbin has rejected calls for more regulation around the roles played by financial product salesman and financial advisers, saying a recen...
Financial planning
A Queensland-based financial planner has made a submission to the parliamentary inquiry into financial services and banking practices in which he calls for stricter defin...
Life/Risk
New Rice Warner research suggests that life insurers should start targeting the direct insurance market in pursuit of growth in circumstances where competition remains fi...
Financial planning
The industry body has created a government and policy committee it hopes will strengthen its relationship with the Government and better represent the needs of its member...
Financial planning
Calls for ASIC to provide solutions to looming crisis....
Financial planning
FICS judgement reinforces need for personal due diligence. ...
Financial planning
FPA says first rewrite is set for January 2009....
Financial planning
Midwinter adds gearing tool to its Reasonable Basis software....
Financial planning
Asks working group to broaden reform to help consumers....
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...