FINANCIAL SERVICES

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said it will commence a review of school banking programs in primary schools....

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Financial planning

Younger Australians are showing surprising levels of concern about retirement, with Roy Morgan finding that Generation Z is the most likely to ask friends and family for ...

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Policy & Regulation

The new ombudsman vows to “proactively work with consumers, small business and the financial services sector to resolve and reduce financial disputes”....

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Superannuation

The Federal Opposition has earned the widespread backing of the financial services industry for its proposed changes to superannuation policy aimed at improving women’s r...

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Awards

Suzanne Smith has taken out Woman of the Year at the Money Management Women in Financial Services Awards, on a night that acknowledged some of the women doing the most to...

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Editorial

The Royal Commission when combined with the Federal Election will dictate significant change for financial planners in 2019. ...

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People & Products

Suzanne Smith has taken out Woman of the Year at the Money Management Women in Financial Services Awards, on a night that acknowledged some of the women doing the most to...

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Policy & Regulation

The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has signalled his intention to take a greater role in superannuation and financial services policy, albeit the assistant treasurer, Stuart ...

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that one of the few certainties flowing from the current Royal Commission is that the Australian financial services industry is facing further signific...

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Financial planning

Financial services employees’ mental health is an ongoing issue, with 44 per cent of workers in the industry having left their job because of a poor mental health environ...

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Financial planning

Specialist financial services lawyer, Dr Hillary Ray has suggested that in the aftermath of the Royal Commission, boards of AFSLs may need to make themselves much more aw...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has banned a Queensland-based financial adviser for seven years after finding he had used his clients’ assets for his personal benefit. ...

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Financial planning

Operators of ‘binary options trading boiler room’, Jana Jaros and Jackson Capper, have been convicted and sentenced....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has attacked what it sees as a bank planner sales culture likely to impact choice of fund and suggested that policy-makers risked leaving consume...

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Financial planning

FOS has received a record number of disputes in the 2016/17 year, driven mainly by general insurance which made up 38 per cent of the increase....

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Ralph

How did the licensee not check this - they should be held to task over it. Obviously they are not making sure their sta...

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JOHN GILLIES

Faking exams and falsifying results..... Too stupid to comment on JG...

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PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

Must agree to disagree with you on this one Keith, with the Banks/Institutions largely out of advice now is the time to ...

18 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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