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The Financial Options Group Inc (FOGI) and the Australia Fund, which had been issued with stop orders from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), ha...

Financial planning

Paul Lahiff is a man with rollback on his mind, and it has nothing to do with the GST....

Financial planning

The investment market is a changing place for the financial services consumer in 2002. Nicole Szollos looks at the trends and developments that shape and sharpen consumer...

Financial planning

Over the past 12 months the working lives of Australia’s financial planning fraternity has been given a good shakeup and for some, even been turned upside down. The bad n...

Financial planning

Another year, another clean slate? Not quite. Legislative overhang from 2001 is set to frame the trials and tribulations of the year ahead as the financial planning indus...

Financial planning

Fund managers and other providers of financial services may be forced to review all the advertising of their products after the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

Financial planning

In all noise surrounding the Privacy Act last year, ASIC also released a policy paper outlining the definition of a financial market. Mike Taylor looks at how this will a...

Financial planning

An open letter to: Directors of Institutional Financial Planning Groups;...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has capped off a busy year with the announcement that it has banned 30 advisers and jailed 25 people it descri...

Financial planning

Integration is a win for all stakeholders...

Financial planning

The Charterbridge Davey dealer group has been sold off to Royal and Sun Alliance after collapsing into voluntary administration under the weight of multi-million dollar c...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has finalised an agreement to sell its professional education program to the burgeoning Indian planning industry....

Financial planning

The man who turned using the terms “disgraced” and “former police officer” together in the same sentence a cliché, disgraced former NSW police officer Roger “the dodger” ...

Financial planning

Asking someone who to name a person they consider to be an influential person is not easy, but when the question is narrowed and the aim is to pick the most influential p...

Financial planning

Competiton in the compliance and training arena has heated up with the announcement that Assessment Education Services will roll out its online compliance, assessment and...

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