INSURANCE

Editorial

Sean Graham dissects the arguments made by industry super funds and some financial planners of the commissions-based remuneration of insurance in recent issues of Money M...

Editorial

As the dust settles on the ACCC's decision to veto NAB's acquisition of AXA Asia Pacific, Mike Taylor writes that many have noted the degree to which the regulator's view...

Financial planning

Frank Smith explains the importance of financial advisers tailoring Statements of Advice and how to avoid common mistakes....

Financial planning

Crissy De Manuele offers the top 10 things to be aware of to ensure your clients maximise their full potential when it comes to superannuation....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Holdings announces intention to merge with listed insurance funding company....

Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service welcomes a Government announcement that Richard St John will examine a statutory compensation scheme....

Financial planning

Dealer groups are continuing to support calls for a unified industry voice despite concerns about how a potential merger between the FPA and the AFA would work....

Financial planning

ING IM launches two new funds as part of a renewed push into the wholesale investment market....

Life/Risk

Insurance represented a positive for Commbank in the March quarter amid outflows....

Policy & Regulation

The Board of Taxation will undertake a review of Australia’s tax laws to ensure that they do not inhibit the expansion of Islamic finance, banking and insurance products....

Financial planning

Job opportunities in the banking and financial services have surged in the first quarter of 2010, particularly for highly skilled temporary and contract staff, according ...

Financial planning

Key bodies representing the financial services industry have broadly welcomed the Rudd Government's plans to overhaul the financial advice industry, but there are some ca...

Financial planning

The Rudd Government has made its reform plans for the financial advice industry public....

Editorial

The debate about financial advice commissions has moved onto insurance products....

Editorial

Tower's David Denison explains why life insurance products are updated....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 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 4 weeks ago

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

7 months 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. ...

3 weeks 2 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

5 days 18 hours ago

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

2 weeks 1 day ago