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Van Eyk Research has signed its fourth research alliance of the year, partnering with Chant West Financial Services to provide industry super fund ratings to clients....

Financial planning

Newcastle-based dealer group Forsythes Financial Services has been forced to retract an advertisement the Australian Securities and Investments Commission considered misl...

Financial planning

The FPA has announced it will hold its own investigation into the conduct of Tasmanian adviser Brendan Moore....

Financial planning

Tasmanian financial planner Brendan Moore could still escape criminal conviction when he is sentenced by a Federal judge on November 2, even though he pleaded guilty to t...

Financial planning

THERE’S at least one financial planner out there who views the emergence of reverse mortgages as a compliment to financial planners...

Editorial

Few financial products have a greater potential to tug at Australians’ emotions than reverse mortgages, according to Kieren Dell, executive director of the Senior Austral...

Editorial

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Financial planning

Last week financial planners were given the first solid indication of what they will have to pay to comply with looming anti-money laundering legislation....

Financial planning

Platforms have proliferated and grown to colossal sizes, evolving over time to occupy a space in the financial services landscape in which they have few competitors....

Financial planning

An example SOA has now been published by ASIC, intended to provide guidance to planners on the giving of documented financial advice. So is the regulator up to scratch wh...

Life/Risk

It is a problem that everybody knows about, and some have solutions for, yet it will not go away. Australians are not buying risk insurance, and far too-few advisers are ...

People & Products

Listed funds management holding company Treasury Group has hired Christine Feldmanis as managing director of its boutique fund manager service division, Treasury Group In...

Financial planning

Paragem Partners has made its second acquisition in as many months, snapping up Zurich’s DBOS licensee support service business, after it bought Tribeca’s compliance arm ...

Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s 12-page example SOA has been welcomed by the FPA, but criticised by the Federal Opposition for still being too long....

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