No one has been particularly surprised at the recent clash which has erupted between industry and retail super funds over the issue of choice, but the DIY super sector ha...
Last June the corporate watchdog went on the attack in the Apple Isle. As most people have probably heard by now, their victim, Hobart based adviser and authorised repres...
Industry Fund Services has agreed to change its super choice advertising campaigns “Compare the Pair” and “A lifetime of Difference” after the Australian Securities and I...
A former director of unlicensed Sydney financial services, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has plead guilty to stealing $2.1 million from clients....
Fee comparisons are being overemphasised in the lead-up to choice of fund, according to the Financial Planning Association, which claims most debate on the new rules is m...
AXA Australia will pay an extra $10 million to members of its staff superannuation fund, after complaints from employees lead to an investigation by both the Australian S...
A former responsible officer of Goldman Sachs JBWere subsidiary Invia Custodian has been permanently banned from providing financial services for misappropriating company...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from an Adelaide man who contravened the Corporations Act when he made unsoli...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sent another strong signal that it plans to take a hands-on role to police the superannuation industry in the lea...
Under the new Financial Services Reform regime, AFS licensees will be required to address risk in the same way they address other areas. SUE LAING reports....
This week Money Management welcomes industry veteran RAY GRIFFIN to its stable of regular columnists. A former FPA chairman and Money Management Financial Planner of the ...
Claiming to have no knowledge of the existence of Financial Services Reform, applying for a financial services license just days before the new regime was due to kick in ...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has moved to wind up a high yield investment scheme which offered investors 10 per cent monthly returns, as part of c...
Financial planning members of Australia’s two peaking accounting bodies have been granted nearly an extra month to comment on a tough new code of practice....
MBF Life and MBF-owned ClearView Life Nominees are the latest in a growing line of insurance companies which have been ordered by regulators to compensate clients overcha...
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,...