FUTURES

Financial planning

It’s time again to return to the topic of gold. It comes at an interesting time when (at least at the time of writing) gold was confounding many critics by rising in pric...

Financial planning

Tower Australia national sales manager, Danny Maher and MLC dealerships general manager, Alan Logan will join over 100 Australian members of the Million Dollar Round Tabl...

Financial planning

Dow Jones Indexes has launched the Dow Jones Australia LPT Index, providing a sole alternative to the S&P/ASX 200 Property Trust Index in the listed property sector....

Financial planning

A former Sydney financial adviser who stole $1.7 million from clients will spend up to eight years in jail....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has opted to restructure its regulatory team rather than appoint a direct replacement for outgoing executive director...

Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission outgoing executive director of financial services regulation Ian Johnston has played down suggestions his departure is re...

Financial planning

Van Eyk has moved to deflect attention from a spate of recent departures to competing research group, Mercer Investment Consulting, by announcing a new head of distributi...

Financial planning

National Australia Bank has added four new non-executive directors to its board only days after signing up two new executive directors....

Policy & Regulation

Superannuation industry figure Barbara Smith has on the eve of the Federal Budget urged Treasurer Peter Costello to remove some of the taxes on super funds because they a...

Editorial

Should we be really happy with a return of 7 per cent? DOMINIC McCORMICK says if we took currency more seriously, we could expect to get considerably more....

Financial planning

Pengana Capital has revealed it will grant investors in its recently flagged new listed investment company - Pengana Managers - equity in the underlying investment manage...

People & Products

Fledgling boutique financial services group Mariner Financial has bolstered its ranks with the appointment of a chief financial officer and another business development m...

Financial planning

Contango Asset Management is set to launch a micro-cap listed investment company (LIC) in March and add to the swarm of LIC investment vehicles that have hit the market o...

Financial planning

The National Australia Group owned Garvan Financial Planning and MLC Financial Planning dealer groups are facing a groundswell of dissatisfaction from their 600 advisers ...

Editorial

The investment industry has long been criticised for being reactive in its provision of products. Perhaps this is partly the result of the long lead time in getting a new...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week ago

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

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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