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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has capped off a busy year with the announcement that it has banned 30 advisers and jailed 25 people it descri...

Financial planning

Sovereign has backtracked on its plans to give one of its advisers $1 million next year as a reward for writing business. The turnaround comes as the Commonwealth Bank's ...

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand subsidiary, Sovereign, is offering to make one adviser a millionaire next year...

Financial planning

Geoff Rimmer is not your typical managing director. Sure he has the towering sky-scraper office building in Sydney’s CBD, a keen business sense and good head for figures....

Financial planning

Growing interest in investing has also called attention to some less than professional practices. Tom Collins argues that in the public’s eye planner renumeration may fal...

Financial planning

Get paid three times for your workMost people work for income, that is their only remuneration. They get paid once for exchanging the hours of their life or a salary or w...

Financial planning

It’s been almost a year since Mercantile Mutual changed its name to ING and acquired a new managing director, John Wylie. During that time, the company has made a splash ...

Financial planning

It is a pretty unusual occurrence to find a financial planner with nothing to do. It seems these days that if a planner does not have towering piles of paper work precari...

Financial planning

Few providers of back office services to financial planners would disagree that they occupy the less glamorous side of the investment advice industry, toiling away in the...

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While this year’s Top 100 dealer survey does not feature any large acquisitions there was plenty of action still occurring among those who scored a place in the rankings....

Financial planning

In recent weeks the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has been particularly active in the prosecution of its duties in the financial services indust...

Financial planning

Four years is a long time in the rapidly changing retail financial services business. But while developments have come thick and fast in my four years at Money Management...

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Objectmastery’s jaunt into the UK market has paid off for the group with it’s UK wrap account Transact attracting more than $200 million of funds under administration....

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Netwealth investments is to makie its first move into the adviser market by offering affiliated financial planners their own Web sites....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a BNP Paribas telecommunications analyst from acting as a representative of a securities dealer for...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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