PETER KELL
Financial planning
With next week’s FOFA event having sold out, Money Management is now offering a webstream....
Financial planning
The regulator has provided a checklist of code content that would obviate the need for complying with opt-in....
Financial planning
In what promises to be one of the most comprehensive debates around the shape of the financial planning industry in a Federal election year, Money Management has joined w...
Editorial
It is now nearly a month since the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced that the 2013 Federal Election would be held on 14 September – and despite her suggestions to ...
Editorial
With scores of financial planners changing dealer groups, Mike Taylor writes that it is important for those doing the recruiting to undertake the necessary due diligence ...
Superannuation
A former self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) adviser has received concurrent suspended sentences of 18-months' imprisonment for obtaining financial advantage by decep...
Policy & Regulation
The implementation of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms looks set to remain "medium soft" until 1 July 2014, according to Shadow Treasurer Mathias Cormann. ...
Financial planning
Vero confirms its selective approach on planner PI while Cormann queries current regime. ...
Financial planning
AFA canvasses concept that two-tiered code of conduct with ethics and providing good advice is more important than obviating opt-in....
Financial planning
Guardian Advice is set to provide refuge to a few “high quality planners” from AAA Financial Intelligence, whose license was recently cancelled by ASIC....
Financial planning
ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell said dealer group AAA Financial Intelligence had an “appalling record” when it comes to ensuring the advice provided was fair and honest....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has reaffirmed its intention to leave intra-fund advice out of the FOFA adviser charging regime....
Financial planning
An investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has led to the conviction of a former NSW-based mortgage broker....
Life/Risk
Former director of insurance broker offers enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
Editorial
A small number of bad apples in the financial services industry once again managed to attract significant attention in 2012....
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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...