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Financial planning

The recent change in Government could help to boost business confidence and increase hiring across the banking and financial services sector, according to Hays Banking di...

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Funds management

Clestus Weerappah has been sentenced to four years jail over his role in the collapse of property development group Dollarforce Financial Services (DFS) in 2009....

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Funds management

ETFs have hit record highs on inflows as advisers make them a central part of portfolio plays....

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Financial planning

Former Opes Prime Stockbroking director Julian Smith has been found not guilty of dishonestly breaching his duties as director in the Victorian Supreme Court. ...

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Financial planning

NAB Asset Servicing has renewed its custody mandate with UBS Global Asset Management....

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Superannuation

New research shows AMP Group has had very little success at selling banking products to its superannuation customers, unlike the Big Four. ...

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Financial planning

Bradley Thomas Sherwin, the bankrupt chairman of Wickham Securities, has been banned from the financial services industry for more than two and a half years....

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Financial planning

Incumbent FPA board member Peter O’Toole calls for the re-election of the FPA board and an end to bickering among the various categories of planners....

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Superannuation

Daniel Butler from DBA Lawyers lists pros and cons of auto-reversionary pensions. ...

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Financial planning

The former chairman of failed Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited has been convicted of insider trading and fined $50,000 following an investigation by the Australian ...

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People & Products

Former IOOF head of investment research Paul O’Connor has joined Challenger as national key account manager....

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Funds management

New ABS data confirms that home ownership and super are the main contributors to Australian household wealth....

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Superannuation

If you have advised that superannuation is tax deductible to your director-client and they do not have in place whatever their rules require, your advice will have been w...

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Financial planning

Former Lionsgate representative permanently banned....

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Financial planning

Synchron’s John Prossor claims a repeat of the AFS brokerage losses can be avoided by paying advisers without delay....

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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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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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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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