For those Australian investors who have prided themselves on complaining about anything and everything for much of their lives, here’s a spanner for your works....
Job advertisements ask for all the same criteria – loads of planning experience, DFP or CFP qualifications and good communication skills. But what skills and talents are ...
Rodney Gibson is a Queensland based financial planner and practising tax agent, and he’s on the hunt. Gibson is out to kill a few sacred cows at next months Queensland st...
A former AMP adviser has pleaded guilty to 23 charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
Four years and 50 columns ago, TOM COLLINS first graced the pages of Money Management. Retracing his steps has led him to conclude that not too much has changed....
Mortgage fraud can significantly impact a client’s available funds, thanks to the fudging of a few figures enabling individuals to borrow more than they should. SIMON PUR...
Three months after the Financial Services Reform Act was passed, ASIC is still pushing its licensing message to the financial services industry to get organised and get c...
Who will pay for the costs of implementing the Financial Services Reform Act is a question that has been lost in the noise of the rollout of the Act. JASON SPITS examines...
THE RECENTLY launched Boutique Financial Planning Principal Group (BFPPG) has almost doubled its membership in its first month of existence since launching at the end of ...
A former AMP adviser has pleaded guilty to 23 charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
How much does the planner sitting next to you earn? Are they more valuable than you? The easiest way to measure the monetary worth of a financial planner is by their job ...
Fallout from the Hartley Poynton case has not abated with continuing interest into how this judgement may set the ground rules for further court action involving advisers...
The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) looks set to result in further compliance and legislative costs to superannuation funds offering member investment choice, warns ...
Gearing is not for all investors, and advisers that recommend gearing inappropriately should expect to face the consequences. GEOFF DAVEY looks at the fate of the client,...
The Federal Government is gearing up to act in the key areas of professional indemnity insurance and the implementation of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) accord...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...