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The introduction of the Financial Services Reform Act has had a major impact on practice profitability – especially for smaller businesses that do not have the scale to e...
Financial planning
ASIC has expanded its compliance team, with Carole Ferguson joining in the new position of director, institutional and wholesale compliance....
Financial planning
Tribeca Learning will exit its compliance business and scale back its events business, as it braces for a disappointing finish to 2004-05....
Financial planning
More than a million consumers will be better off and an indelible administration load has been lifted from the superannuation industry after Treasurer Peter Costello’s su...
Financial planning
Macquarie Wealth Management has signed up the first six planners for its new affiliate dealer group, Lachlan Wealth Management, luring them away from Godfrey Pembroke....
Financial planning
The Australian National Audit Office has criticised the Australian Taxation Office over its administration of the superannuation contributions surcharge, pointing to a ra...
Financial planning
Salaried financial planners will only receive an average pay rise of 3 to 5 per cent this year, according to the latest research from Money Management, carried out by the...
Financial planning
The planning practice of former Financial Planning Association board member Laura Menschik has joined forces with two other boutiques to set up a new business combining f...
Funds management
Hedge fund managers have been warned they will come under increasing scrutiny from the corporate regulator, which has expressed concern that the complexity of some funds ...
Financial planning
There has only been a slight increase in the overall number of financial planners in the past 12 months, and most growth now appears to be coming from the self-employed s...
Financial planning
Self-managed superannuation funds are booming and, with employee choice just around the corner, things are starting to heat up in this sector....
Financial planning
Financial planning software vendors may have differing views on whether web-based solutions will predominate in the short-term, but all providers have one thing in common...
Financial planning
The requirement under financial services reform (FSR) to audit advisers is an expensive business for the dealers and a potentially stressful one for already overworked pl...
Financial planning
Many investors will remain ignorant of the soft-dollar payments received by advisers under the new industry Code of Practice for their disclosure, according to the Austra...
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...