Lucinda Beaman

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An analysts' report from Merrill Lynch has raised questions around the effectiveness of IFSA's draft superannuation charter, while saying it will pose significant challen...

The chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has admitted there were "shortcomings" relating to loans granted to clients of the failed financial planning gro...

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17 June 2009

New guidelines around the payment of product-directed commissions to financial planners is the most significant, but not the only, recommendation in a charter that aims t...

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The Investment and Financial Services Association has confirmed its members will create a clear divide between product and financial advice costs from next year....

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Consumer group Choice is lobbying the Government to ban what it describes as "perverse incentives" paid to financial advisers that serve to make the advice consumers rece...

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14 June 2009

Listed property group appoints Kevin Murphy to key role....

Barry Lambert's concerns about a bubble in the first home owners market appear to be coming true....

The payments made by product providers and investment platforms - otherwise known as volume bonuses and shelf space fees - are beginning to be questioned, but rebates at ...

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Is this the end of the honeymoon period for the partnerships between product providers and dealer groups? Another submission to the parliamentary inquiry has given a damn...

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The losses incurred by clients of Storm Financial could be traced back to the faulty systems employed by Colonial Geared Investments, according to a former key executive ...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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