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Financial planning
With the Government promising to increase education requirements for financial planners through its Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms package, the AMP Horizons Ac...
Financial planning
The current exemption of financial planners from the tax agent services regime has been extended to 30 June, 2012....
Financial planning
Collapsing institutions and a loss of wealth have combined to give the margin lending industry a bad reputation. Angela Faherty explains why increased legislation and a m...
Financial planning
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) would like to see a better model used for pricing individual risk that would potentially bring down the costs of professional ind...
Editorial
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) no doubt believes it is doing a good job – and it is certainly operating within the guidelines laid down by ASIC – but i...
Financial planning
Many in the industry feel that the legislation targeting margin lending has only served to make investors more fearful of the practice. Ashley McIntyre reports....
Financial planning
Two Victorian men have been charged with multiple counts of insider trading while acting as brokers for Citigroup Wealth Advisors in Perth, while a third man has also bee...
Financial planning
The former managing director of Burns Philp Trustee Company has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on fraud charges, following a lengthy cat-and-mouse game with the Aus...
Funds management
A former Macquarie Bank fund manager has been sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment for front running....
Editorial
ASIC, hard-pressed for funding and resources, has embarked on a costly exercise aimed at determining the quality of retirement advice at a time when the underlying rules ...
Editorial
Sydney-based planning principal, Greg Cook, questions whether advice being given to consumers by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is really in the pub...
Financial planning
Directors have been warned of the need for more transparency on related party transactions....
Financial planning
A Victorian man has been arrested and charged in connection with the collapse of the Dollarforce group, which raised more than $24 million dollars from investors through ...
Financial planning
Not-for-profit superannuation fund trustees have been warned that if they do not agree on fund governance guidelines they risk having them imposed by the Government....
People & Products
Clearview has appointed Chris Robson as its general counsel and company secretary, effective 4 April, 2011....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...