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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is considering making it mandatory for so-called ‘shelf fee’ arrangements between fund managers and dealer groups to ...

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Financial planning

Records of advice have been included in a revised version of the Financial Planning Association’s guide on the development of effective Statements of Advice, released yes...

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Life/Risk

Genesys Wealth Advisers is paving a new path for Australia’s risk insurance industry with a process designed to speed-up and simplify the underwriting process....

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Financial planning

An authorised representative of Count Financial has had limitations placed on his advisory activities by the regulator after a follow-up investigation into the superannua...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is to investigate the circumstances surrounding the enforceable undertaking provided by AMP Financial Planning to the Australian Securi...

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Information is power and in today’s complex and sophisticated business world our regulators are more often turning to the legislative search and access powers to collect ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has proactively followed up the main findings of its shadow shopping survey regarding superannuation choice with some suggestions for licensees on how to address the...

Financial planning

The FPA is confident the industry will overcome conditions that led to a ‘statements of advice’ failure in the ASIC’s 2006 ‘shadow shopper’ survey on superannuation advic...

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Financial planners have received another bad rap from the corporate regulator, with its latest shadow shopping report concluding that close to one in five advisers gave u...

Financial planning

Another desktop advisory software provider has entered the financial planning arena after signing a contract with a mid-sized, Sydney-based independent dealer group to he...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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