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Wealth creation seminars and internet scams involving exotic tropical locations have been singled out by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission as featuring...

Financial planning

Switching for switching’s sake in the new choice of funds environment has been discouraged by the Financial Planning Association, which claimed yesterday that in most cas...

Financial planning

MLC has joined the pre-choice rush to launch online retirement savings calculators....

Financial planning

A former director of unlicensed Sydney financial services, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has plead guilty to stealing $2.1 million from clients....

Superannuation

Anticipating a flood of self-managed superannuation funds being set up after July 1, the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Securities and Investments Commissi...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers’ long quest to resolve its designation woes will come to fruition at the end of the month when advisers officially take on its new F...

Financial planning

Proving that advice is given in the best interests of clients is more critical than ever if financial planners want to avoid a day in court, writes Paul Resnik....

Financial planning

The relationship between product providers and research houses has appeared on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) radar with new anti-conflict ...

Financial planning

The findings of a new survey have contradicted the infamous ‘shadow shopper’ report released in February 2003 by the Australian Consumers' Association and the Australian ...

Financial planning

Over the past three years, more and more advisers have said they are becoming ‘lifestyle’ focused with their financial planning business and we have heard buzz words such...

Financial planning

For the first time since Money Management began publishing its Top 50 Distributors list, the big players have loosened their stronghold on Australia’s financial advice di...

Financial planning

Affiliated dealer groups FuturePlus and Chifley Financial Services have resolved an ongoing dispute with advisers by withdrawing a 12-page commercial agreement the latter...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is set to release the details of its ongoing work in the area of disclosure in light of last week’s commentary on its...

Financial planning

The Australian Investors Association today called on the financial services industry to self regulate itself by outlawing all forms of soft dollar payments in a move nega...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has converted its pursuit of five options trading seminar operators into an enforceable undertaking with the Federal ...

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