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Financial planning

All eyes were on Ian Johnston as advisers came to terms with the most significant regulatory changes in many years...

Financial planning

It was a marriage of dealer group and fund manager royalty when Chris Cuffe and Ray Miles hammered out the deal of the year....

Financial planning

Newcastle-based dealer group Forsythes Financial Services has been forced to retract an advertisement the Australian Securities and Investments Commission considered misl...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Dunn and Colonial First State chief executive John Pearce have been promoted to the roles of chair and deputy chair of the ...

Financial planning

The FPA has announced it will hold its own investigation into the conduct of Tasmanian adviser Brendan Moore....

Financial planning

Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore could still escape criminal conviction when he is sentenced by a Federal judge on November 2, even though he pleaded guilty to t...

Financial planning

There is a great deal of focus on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) requirements in regards to statements of advice (SOAs). Complying with the...

Editorial

Few financial products have a greater potential to tug at Australians’ emotions than reverse mortgages, according to Kieren Dell, executive director of the Senior Austral...

Financial planning

A former director of the now defunct Whet Investments has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 to the failed company’s administrators following an investigation by the ...

Financial planning

Financial planners who give advice to clients without taking a fee would be excused from rigorous disclosure requirements, including having to supply statements of advice...

Superannuation

If there’s a constant in the ongoing industry debate over net benefits to super fund members, it is the regularity with which the key players have asked the Australian Se...

Financial planning

Financial planning groups have been given the chance to break down any barriers preventing them from pushing into the American financial services market as part of negoti...

Financial planning

An example SOA has now been published by ASIC, intended to provide guidance to planners on the giving of documented financial advice. So is the regulator up to scratch wh...

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