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The Industry Super Network has combined with Choice, ACOSS and the ACTU to place pressure on the Ripoll inquiry just days before it is due to report....

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Editorial

The combination of superannuation fund choice and the first prolonged downturn since the advent of compulsory super has fragmented the industry, writes Pauline Vamos....

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Financial planning

Van Eyk Three Pillars has advised shareholders against Dixon Advisory's proposal to take executive control of Three Pillars' board....

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Financial planning

ASIC uses its submission to the Ripoll Inquiry to suggest more regulatory intervention and higher licensing and fiduciary standards for planners....

Financial planning

Merged entity will have $7.5 billion in funds under management, up to 330,000 members and 560,000 customers, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide....

Financial planning

Chairman Tony D'Aloisio admits the global financial crisis has exposed flaws in the way planners are remunerated....

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Financial planning

While a fee-for-service model removes real or perceived conflicts of interest that plague the financial planning industry, it can also hinder firms in attracting new clie...

Financial planning

Premium Investors has announced an on-market share buy-back scheme. The move follows last month's request from Dixon Advisory to replace the Premium board with Dixon staf...

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Editorial

When the National Australia Bank (NAB) late last month announced its acquisition of Aviva’s wealth management business, its documentation lodged with the Australian Secur...

Financial planning

Premium Investors' board has advised its shareholders that proposals from a number of Dixon Advisory clients to replace its existing board and amend the company constitut...

Financial planning

Industry body says criticisms of its new planner remuneration guidelines represent short-term thinking and "run counter to the best interests of planners, clients and the...

Financial planning

It’s the end of the road for beleaguered financial planning group Storm Financial. The regulator has succeeded in its quest to have the group formally wound up without an...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has applied to the Federal Court to place Storm Financial in liquidation in a move prompted by a 'misleading' memo ci...

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Financial planning

Minto calls for Government action on insurance as Tower reports strong result....

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Financial planning

Property valuation uncertainty results in temporary suspension....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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