AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

Financial planning

The FSC is pressing the Goverment to form a financial services export coordination body....

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Financial planning

Fortnum Financial Group is set to become one of Australia’s largest independently owned AFSLs, after completing the purchase of ANZ’s 20 per cent stake in the company....

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the AFSLs of seven licensees who did not have adequate professional indemnity insurance....

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Editorial

Money Management’s 2014 Top 100 Dealer Group research has revealed an industry which has changed substantially since 2007/08 and might be on the cusp of further change. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The compliance work involved in running an AFSL has intensified under the FOFA reforms, Ausingroup’s head of wealth management, Mark Morcos believes,...

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled eight Australian Financial Services licences, after its review of licensees who failed to lodge audited annual statements....

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Financial planning

ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Brisbane-based planning business, Custom Wealth Solutions Dealer Services Pty Ltd....

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Financial planning

Financial services licensees should make it a point to highlight their conflicts of interests with life insurance companies to clients....

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Financial planning

The FSC said Australian funds managers will gain cross-border access, and the financial services sector will benefit from the Japan Australia Economic Partnership Agreeme...

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Financial planning

The level of proportionate liability for the actions of planners and licensees has been made uncertain after the Federal Court contradicted itself in recent ruling....

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Financial planning

ASIC has secured an interim order preventing Vault Market Pty Ltd and its director, MD Anamul Amin, from carrying on a financial services business without an Australian F...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to be careful when deciding to treat clients as “sophisticated investors”, senior lawyer at The Fold Legal, Lesley Thorne, warns....

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Financial planning

ASIC should be given the power to immediately suspend financial planners who it suspects have engaged in misconduct according to Senate Committee....

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Financial planning

Institutionally-owned Australian financial services licensees are bound by approved product lists, which compromises advice and products they recommend to clients, one fi...

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Financial planning

Businesses in the Australian financial services and insurance sector are among the countries top users of IT, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...

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