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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....

Financial planning

A “taken aback” chief executive of the Financial Planning Association, Kerrie Kelly, has demanded the chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission take a...

Financial planning

The FPA has stepped up the pressure on its members over soft dollar payments, asking them to prove they are complying with a new code of conduct....

Financial planning

With conflicts of interest in the spotlight, receiving payment for services is no simple matter. Zoe Fielding asked Financial Planning Association director Sarah Brennan ...

Financial planning

If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...

Financial planning

There are many facets to Macquarie Bank, and conflicts of interest are inevitably going to occur, but the financial services giant believes it has established a framework...

Financial planning

RetireInvest has updated the SOA templates used by advisers, reducing documents to around 30 pages....

Financial planning

Many a financial planner would have spat out their coffee last June when news of the biggest potential shake-up of financial planning education landed on their desk. A sm...

Financial planning

Melbourne dealer group Lonsdale Financial Group has proved that Statements of Advice (SOA) do not need to be long and complex, reducing their disclosure documents to just...

Financial planning

There is a degree of confusion by some practitioners in the financial planning and accountancy fields as to the ability of an accountant to give advice to a client of the...

Financial planning

By world standards, ASIC keeps advisers on a very short leash. But across the Tasman, financial intermediaries are subject to fewer restrictions. Late last year, New Zeal...

Financial planning

It’s taken nearly five years, in which time it’s been dwarfed as a financial services issue in Australia by the launch of the Financial Services Reform Act, but a global ...

Financial planning

The recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office allowing financial planners to give tax advice has blurred the roles of accountants and advisers even further. In the ...

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