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The Ray White Group’s eight-year battle to break into the Australian financial advice market is over. How did it ultimately fail after so many years trying to succeed?...

Financial planning

The loans outstanding, which are cumulatively worth $274 billion, have been granted temporary repayment deferrals by deposit -taking institutions. ...

People & Products

ME Bank and specialist retirement funding provider Household Capital, which launched earlier this year, have announced a partnership to establish a $100 million wholesale...

Financial planning

Financial Circle has been restrained from providing financial advice or carrying on a financial services business, following an interim injunction from the Federal Court ...

Superannuation

Taxation Commissioner, Chris Jordan, has raised a red flag with respect to related party transactions and $200 audits....

Features

Malavika Santhebennur looks at what legislative changes the SMSF sector can expect in 2016 and what remains in limbo in part two of this feature on SMSFs....

Superannuation

The trustees of an SMSF have been fined $40,000 after admitting to almost 70 breaches of the SIS Act, by the Federal Court of Australia....

Financial planning

The average home loan has growth by 18.5 per cent compared with full-time wages growing 3.6 per cent and is this disparity is unlikely to change anytime soon, Mortgage Ch...

Life/Risk

Mortgage lenders are likely to pull the plug on interest only loans in response to warning from APRA about the need to slow investor credit growth....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 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 ...

6 months ago

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

8 months ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

3 weeks 4 days ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

3 weeks 3 days ago