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Vero Insurance has adopted the general insurance code of practice across its business ahead of the insurance ombudsman service July 18 deadline....

ING-owned dealer group Tandem Financial Advice has announced that its advisers will soon have access to the Inspector Compliance online management system and associated T...

While financial planning software hardly sounds like an area you would expect to find participants slugging it out, that’s exactly what is happening. It’s proving to be a...

Despite the requirement by the FPA that their members fully comply with the ‘soft dollar code’ by January 1, 2005, benefit arrangements employed by advisory dealer groups...

New research has revealed it is still a man’s world when it comes to the executive positions of the finance and insurance industry....

Equity Trustees EQT has boosted its responsible entity RE business by signing up Putnam and an additional two US fund managers entering the Australian market....

Auditor KPMG has defended itself against claims that it had some responsibility for the losses incurred by investors in the failed Westpoint group of companies....

Overseas organisations are posing a threat to the integrity and equitable operation of the domestic insurance market, according to the head of one of Australia’s leading ...

Western Australian-based dealer group Wealthsure has entered into an agreement to use Multiport software in the administration of its clients’ self-managed superannuation...

ASIC is currently examining whether further regulation is specifically needed for platforms, although at present it is unclear whether they should be defined as a product...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is currently working on a project that aims to crackdown on people providing unlicensed financial advice....

The Government hopes the current round of refinements to Financial Services Reform (FSR), which it plans to make law by December 2006, will finalise the regulations and o...