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FORMER Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph has joined with the former chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Financial planning

Pauline Vamos has been named the most influential person in financial services by a panel of industry peers....

Financial planning

Pauline Vamos has been named the most influential person in financial services by a panel of industry peers....

Accounting

An accountant and his daughter were sentenced to jail by the County Court of Victoria after being found guilty of intending to permanently deprive their clients of more t...

Financial planning

Hundreds of advisers around the country have being forced to quit the financial planning industry after failing to comply with the new compulsory education requirements u...

Funds management

Investment consultant Dominic McCormick has linked up with the European based Gottex group to launch a new boutique funds management organisation....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) used a meeting last week of the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Implementation Consultative Committee to call for clarificatio...

Financial planning

Truth in advertising may be a contradiction in terms, but that has not stopped the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), which last week released a pap...

Financial planning

IN THE middle of last week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released a report which was a review of the disclosure of fees and charges within ...

Financial planning

FINANCIAL Planners could be forced to show in Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) all the fees and commissions they receive from selling funds management products under ...

Funds management

The Challenger International group has been forced by its auditor to seek an independent assessment of the methodology used to determine the value of its property assets....

Financial planning

MELBOURNE-based Kevin Bailey has been rated Australia’s top financial adviser under a new system of ranking planners released by the Adviser Ratings group this week....

Financial planning

The current environment does not encourage advisers to charge fees for service, argues PETER BOBBIN. But all that might change if the law was amended to allow clients to ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called on the Government to offer incentives and assistance to financial planners in transitioning their businesses over into...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) continuing campaign against solicitors mortgage schemes received another shot in the arm yesterday, with the...

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