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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has handed out another sentence in relation to the Lifestyle Property Group, a failed property investment grou...

Financial planning

Though they might often be seen as a cute addition to the family, children are also an extremely heavy financial burden for Australian parents, leaving families in need o...

Financial planning

The Snowball Group has signed a deal with Vodafone to provide financial advice to the telecommunication company’s 800 staff in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania....

Financial planning

AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl has handed over the reins of chairman at the Investments and Financial Services Association (IFSA) to Queensland Investment Corporation ch...

Accounting

An accountant and his daughter were sentenced to jail by the County Court of Victoria after being found guilty of intending to permanently deprive their clients of more t...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified a former executive director of an insurance management group from acting as a trustee of any supera...

Financial planning

Sarah Brennan, Leonie Henry, Corinna Dieters and Colin Scully are the new Financial Planning Association (FPA) board members after the association’s members were called u...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) today announced that the currently vacant role of deputy chief executive officer will be filled by NSP Buck execu...

Financial planning

The former chairman of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ray Griffin, has decided to leave the high profile Gunther Doyle Griffin planning group....

Financial planning

Two Melbourne men associated with the failed Lifestyle property group have been sentenced to a total of seven years jail after pleading guilty to charges brought by the A...

Financial planning

The former investment services group executive at the St George Bank, Richard Cawsey, has resigned as a director of the troubled accounting and financial planning consoli...

Financial planning

Tasmanian based financial adviser Robin Yates has been elected the new president of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....

Financial planning

The Wilson HTM group is set to stay on the acquisition trail it started with the purchase of BNP Paribas’ Australian asset management business, confirming it is currently...

Financial planning

Investors and their advisers should not be lured into capital guaranteed investment options by the continuing uncertainty pervading economies around the world....

Financial planning

FINANCIAL Planners could be forced to show in Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) all the fees and commissions they receive from selling funds management products under ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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