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Hillross Financial Services is to begin a mail-out to 2,500 of its investors in its PortfolioCare Investment Service this week, following news its disclosure docu-ments m...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is to audit financial planning groups to ensure its members adhere to the association’s disclosure regime....

Policy & Regulation

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) is auditing several life companies as its review of the life insurance taxation regime steps up a gear....

Financial planning

Financial planners are not alone in the firing line when it comes to ensuring all contact with clients is above board, according to an industry figure....

Financial planning

The superannuation choice of fund proposal has been on the Federal Government’s to do list since the Coalition came to power in 1996. And while the Government considers i...

Financial planning

Three agricultural investment schemes and a feature movie proposal, totalling almost $2 million in investments, have been stopped by the ASIC in the last four weeks....

Financial planning

More than $3.4 billion in superannuation has been lost by Australians, with the amount held in unclaimed accounts growing by more than $1 billion a year....

Financial planning

Operators of mortgage investment schemes have been given more time to become licensed through the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

More than $3.4 billion in superannuation has been lost by Australians, with the amount held in unclaimed accounts growing by more than $1 billion a year....

Financial planning

Superannuation fund's annual reports, compliance and complaints procedures will come under scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as part...

Financial planning

Superannuation fund's annual reports, compliance and complaints procedures will come under scrutiny by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) as part...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Planning is probably Australia's biggest dealer group with about 1280 plan-ners. Samantha Walker steps inside the juggernaut to see what makes it tick....

Financial planning

The Life Insurance Conduct and Disclosure (LICD) Bill is back on the legislative agenda but under a different guise....

Financial planning

Retired secretary of Perth-based RAC Superannuation Fund Kerry Davey always knew Bob Harris was coming to brief employees when he saw a diminutive figure toting a brand n...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made final stop or-ders on the prospectuses for the The Oil Fields Project 4 and The Great Forests 1999 Pr...

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