AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES

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Research commissioned by the Investment and Financial Services Association has suggested policy and legislative changes encouraging the export of Australian financial ser...

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China’s booming economy represents significant opportunities for Australian financial services organisations large and small, according to a recent study completed by Aus...

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The nation’s largest financial planning dealer group, Professional Investment Services (PIS), has entered an agreement to purchase the external advisory business of Bongi...

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There is cautious optimism within the industry that a proposed consumer ‘compensation’ fund levy has been dropped from newly announced legislation mandating financial pla...

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A Victorian-based company and holder of an Australian Financial Services Licence that acted as trustee for a number of superannuation funds, Top Quartile Management Limit...

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The Supreme Court of NSW has granted orders sought by the corporate regulator preventing a Sydney-based financial planner from leaving the country and liquidating his ass...

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Financial planning dealer group Australian Financial Services Group has signed a heads of agreement to acquire a strategic stake in The Salisbury Group for an undisclosed...

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The Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) is to sell its business education division to global education provider Kaplan for $36 million....

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WB Financial Management claims to have become the first independently owned dealer group in Australia to achieve an international standard quality assurance certificate t...

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A former financial planner has faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court on seven fraud charges relating to activities that left his clients more than $126,000 out of pocket....

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The Boutique Financial Planning Principals Group is calling for a standard one-page document of conflicts of interest to be developed for inclusion on the front page of a...

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The Financial Planning Association has meted out the most severe punishment against a Western Australian-based planner and planning practice regarding advice about Westpo...

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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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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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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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The Reserve Bank of Australia's latest interest rate announcement has left punters disheartened on Melbourne Cup Day....

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The Federal Court has given a verdict on ASIC’s case against Dixon Advisory director Paul Ryan which had alleged he breached his director duties....

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