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Financial planning

St George Group has surprised the market by announcing changes to the structure of its wealth management and retail financial services division, resulting in the departur...

Financial planning

The Snowball Group has declared its intention to purchase Western Pacific Financial Group, which will result in scale benefits for the combined entity and a new level of ...

Financial planning

As the industry steps up its defence against a looming legacy problem, Zurich Financial Services is nearing the end of its rationalisation process and is close to putting...

Editorial

St Andrew’s Australia has reported a pre-tax profit of $8.4 million for the half year ending June, 2005, up 147 per cent on the corresponding period last year....

Life/Risk

Advisers have an opportunity to boost the uptake of personal insurance, after the insurance head at a leading financial services organisation warned the product had falle...

Life/Risk

Dishonesty charges have been laid against an insurance broker in the Melbourne Magistrates Court following an investigation by the corporate regulator....

Financial planning

Bravura Solutions has strengthened its position across the Asia Pacific by entering into a regional teaming agreement with IBM....

Life/Risk

ASIC has permanently banned an ANZ bank representative and a former insurance broker after they were found to have misappropriated clients’ funds....

Financial planning

Laing Advisory has launched a subscriptions-based online life risk insurance resource service targeted at both investment planners and risk advisers....

Financial planning

Comparing the benefits of various superannuation funds will be made simpler for advisers following the launch of a research resource from Mercer Investment Consulting....

Financial planning

Underlying hot topics like the commissions debate, Australia’s insurance gap and compliance is the need to boost consumer confidence and reinforce the value of advice, ac...

Life/Risk

An insurance broker has been charged with 11 counts of dishonest conduct following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Life/Risk

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Financial planning

In an effort to demystify life insurance, Zurich has thrown away traditional thought patterns and by the end of the year will have launched a new product designed to revo...

Life/Risk

Privately owned financial advisory firm Centric Wealth has added general insurance advice to the range of services it provides to its customers in response to strong clie...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

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

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

6 months 3 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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