AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

DomaCom has signed a third national dealer group to its Foundation Partner program, which has now signed a total of 11 Australian financial services (AFS) licensees that ...

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Financial planning

DomaCom has signed a third national dealer group to its Foundation Partner program, which has now signed a total of 11 AFSLs that advise on a total of $3 billion....

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Financial planning

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

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Financial planning

With remuneration models under scrutiny in the face of significant regulatory overhaul such as the removal of volume rebates due to Future of Financial Advice reforms, ad...

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Superannuation

AMP will continue to grow its SMSF capabilities in the second half of 2012....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Lion Advantage and banned its chief executive David Hickie from providing financial services for two years...

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People & Products

Former ANZ executive Alan Logan appointed to head AFS....

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Life/Risk

Some boutiques are not providing professional indemnity cover to new advisers according to Townsend Business and Corporate Lawyers....

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Financial planning

ASIC has frozen $3.4 million in funds held by Investment Intelligence Corporation amid suspicion it operated without an AFSL....

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People & Products

Westpac Australian Financial Services boss Peter Hanlon to hand over to Brian Hartzer and adopt an advisory role....

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Financial planning

Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden has lobbied Washington for an intergovernmental agreement to resolve the FATCA debate....

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Financial planning

Hiring for the Australian financial services industry has declined 37 per cent this quarter compared to the same time last year according to eFinancialCareers....

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Superannuation

On the back of changes announced as part of the FOFA guidelines, My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist authority to enable accountants to continue to recomm...

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Accounting

Dealer group My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist package for accountants, which it claims will go beyond the proposed legislation....

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People & Products

BT Financial Group has appointed Adam McGuren as the national manager of Licensee Select....

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