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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) used a meeting last week of the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Implementation Consultative Committee to call for clarificatio...
Financial planning
Truth in advertising may be a contradiction in terms, but that has not stopped the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), which last week released a pap...
Financial planning
Leading investment house Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) has found itself caught up in the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) ongoing crackdown on disclo...
Financial planning
FINANCIAL Planners could be forced to show in Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) all the fees and commissions they receive from selling funds management products under ...
Funds management
A standardised definition for all fees, and their disclosure and purpose listed in one table in the product disclosure statement (PDS) of managed investment products were...
Editorial
The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) looks set to result in further compliance and legislative costs to superannuation funds offering member investment choice, warns ...
Funds management
Macquarie Bank has struck a joint venture agreement with ProLogis, a North American commercial property company, to roll out its first listed US property trust on the Aus...
Financial planning
The Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) will alter the landscape in which agribusiness has to work. John Wilkinson reports on how the new rules will impact this investm...
Financial planning
In my last article I discussed the role of the financial planner and how the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB) does not equate advice with financial planning....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...