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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a Perth-based investment adviser from acting as an authorised representative of a securities dealer...

Financial planning

A love of the country and his community has kept Robert Kiddell out of the big smoke, but he has long been playing in the big league. Jason Spits looks at why the judges ...

Editorial

Dominic McCormick questions accountants’ love affair with investing in property....

Financial planning

Paul Resnik calls on the industry to bring common sense back into financial planning training and practice....

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services Australia (ZSFA) has been issued the last of its eight Australian Financial Services Licences by the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group will aim to boost its sale into its multi-manager offerings after signing up former MLC senior business development manager Michael Bailey....

Financial planning

Risk selling is about selling relationships, not products. Julie Bennett and Freya Purnell report....

Financial planning

Not all planners were first educated within the industry. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

Accountants and financial planners work in the same space but often don’t see eye to eye. Jason Spits finds out where the stumbling blocks are and what planners can do to...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) officially launched its new professional designations yesterday at the AFA National Conference in Queensland....

Financial planning

Is there any way to accurately measure adviser quality, asks Robert Keavney....

Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has moved in on property investment seminar promoters, obtaining undertakings from Henry Kaye, Alan Meagher, National...

Accounting

Accountants have been cut out from providing even non-specific advice on superannuation products after revisions to the Financial Services Reform regulation adding more f...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned former financial adviser David Paul Mudge from acting as a representative of a securiti...

Financial planning

Two former IWL executives, David Wright and David Smythe, have launched a new research consulting business - Zenith Investment Partners - six months after being dismissed...

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