CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Financial planning

Boutique dealer group Premium Wealth Management has launched a new service aimed at helping accountants deal with the new licensing regime replacing the accountants' exem...

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Editorial

AMP Limited has turned in a solid full-year net profit on the back of improved performances across a range of divisions including wealth management and AMP Capital....

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Policy & Regulation

The dawning realisation that grandfathering arrangements may be put in jeopardy is likely to create a spike in the number of planners changing dealer groups before 30 Jun...

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Superannuation

Banks are receiving numerous calls from customers anxious about the Government’s proposed changes to superannuation....

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Financial planning

FSC's John Brogden offers to have the industry co-fund a public education campaign on the value of advice....

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Funds management

Global markets are awash with liquidity and the medium prospects for equities looks good when compared to bonds, according to Epoch Investment Partners chief executive Bi...

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Editorial

Suncorp Group has lifted its dividend on the back of a strong half-year result....

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Financial planning

Should ‘financial planner’ and ‘financial adviser’ be synonymous in the eyes of law?...

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Policy & Regulation

The implementation of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms looks set to remain "medium soft" until 1 July 2014, according to Shadow Treasurer Mathias Cormann. ...

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Financial planning

Financial software provider Rubik Financial Limited has signed a provisional agreement to acquire Provisio Software, a provider of scaled and online advice technology to ...

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Funds management

WAM Capital has posed the question of whether 2013 will be the year of the bull amid a strong start to equity markets, at the same time as announcing a strong half-year p...

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Accounting

The IPA has restated its intention to over-ride APES 230 while accountants remain concerned that the APESB is not moving on the issue....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council's backdown on its 'churning' policy has been welcomed by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

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Financial planning

As more financial advisers go down the specialist path, establishing a successful financial advice business in the new regulatory landscape may require a similar approach...

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Financial planning

SMSF administration company superMate has launched an additional feature to its cloud-based software platform — an automated depreciation schedule feature....

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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