FINANCIAL SERVICES

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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People & Products

QMV founder, Mark Vaughan has succeeded fellow founder Michael Quinn as managing director of superannuation consulting and technology firm, QMV....

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Features

Money Management’s 2013 Woman of the Year, Fiona Trafford-Walker, looks at steps firms can take to help overcome challenges women face in the workplace....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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People & Products

Euroz Securities chief executive, Robert Black has been elevated to the firm’s parent company, Euroz Limited, board....

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Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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Features

Equal gender representation in the financial services industry remains elusive, as unconscious bias, the gender pay gap, and rigid working conditions prevent women from b...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that a broad cross-section of the financial services industry has voiced its concerns about a compensation scheme of last resort but few appear to be l...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government flagged the existence of a loophole in last year’s Budget and the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has admitted a handful of mili...

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People & Products

A partnership between Fortnum and Moneysoft will see the dealer group’s planners helping clients with a digital money management solution....

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Editorial

Recent federal ministerial rhetoric suggests the financial services industry has few friends in high places and difficulty in finding its voice, Mike Taylor writes....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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