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Funds management

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have increased in popularity over the past 12 months following a dramatic shift in the investment landscape, according to Australian Index In...

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Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has commissioned another poll that backs its claims on the need for planners to be legally required to act only in the best interests of their ...

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Financial planning

Professional Investment Services had a rough ride throughout the global financial crisis. Lucinda Beaman spoke with chief executive Robbie Bennetts about the company’s fu...

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Financial planning

Canberra-based super fund AvSuper has been granted relief to provide intra-fund advice but is sticking with its outsourced full financial planning arrangement with Outloo...

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Financial planning

National Australia Bank owned dealer group MLC is building a team of 10 staff to recruit advisers from other dealer groups as it seeks to take the lead in the game of sca...

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Financial planning

Elders Forestry maintains that its forestry projects are sound investments for SMSFs despite lingering fears caused by the collapse of Timbercorp and Great Southern....

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Financial planning

Financial planners continue to grapple with customer relationship management (CRM) and platform systems, and integration is once again becoming a key concern....

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Financial planning

In response to the latest Intergenerational Report, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (A...

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Financial planning

Mortgage brokers have been going through an evolutionary period since the new National Credit Protection Legislation came into effect on January 1, and the challenges the...

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Editorial

Bryan Ashenden takes a look at the far-reaching impact the recommendations of the Ripoll Inquiry could have on the financial services industry....

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Financial planning

Recent action in the NSW Supreme Court over the status of Adviser Service Fees when authorised representatives change licensees appears to have raised more questions than...

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Editorial

This year promises to be interesting year for the entire financial services industry, writes Jim Minto....

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has called for the retention of dealer group rebates and a self-regulatory approach to the removal of commissions from the financial planning indust...

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Financial planning

Centric Wealth wants a clear line drawn between sales agents and advisers in the superannuation advice space....

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a Victorian financial planner from providing financial services for five years for, among other things, misleading his clients and providing clients with ...

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

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks ago

increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

3 weeks 6 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

21 hours 58 minutes ago

ASIC has cancelled a Sydney AFSL for failing to pay a $64,000 AFCA determination related to inappropriate advice, which then had to be paid by the CSLR. ...

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