ACCC

Superannuation

Commission to monitor Prime Trust bid for B&B Communities Group....

Financial planning

Commission to monitor Prime Trust bid for B&B Communities Group....

Financial planning

Concerns about competition not addressed by ACCC...

Financial planning

Next stage in looking at competition issues....

Financial planning

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has stepped up its examination of Suncorp-Metway’s proposed acquisition of Promina by formally seeking further informat...

Financial planning

The Suncorp-Metway and Promina Group $7.9 billion merger deal is currently pending approval from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which has the power t...

Financial planning

The Australian Defence Force has launched a financial education initiative for all three services....

Life/Risk

Promina Group has completed the sale of Vero Lenders Mortgage Insurance to Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance for consideration of $220 million....

Funds management

A group of property investment seminar promoters have agreed to consent orders in the Federal Court to correct misrepresentations allegedly made in material promoting a s...

Financial planning

The recent terse exchange between the Financial Planning Association and the Australian Investors Association revealed some of the deeper held suspicions relating to soft...

Financial planning

The Australian Investors Association today called on the financial services industry to self regulate itself by outlawing all forms of soft dollar payments in a move nega...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has clashed with the Australian Investors Association over the latter accusing the FPA of making false and misleading statements along ...

Financial planning

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group Survey highlights the enormous impact a National Australia Bank takeover of AMP would have on the financial services industry. Mik...

Financial planning

The ongoing legacy of the HIH Insurance collapse in Australia is the cost and availability of professional indemnity insurance. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

AXA expects to lose over 120 advisers from its dealer groups as a result of Policy Statement 146 requirements and the introduction of raised education and compliance stan...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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