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Life/Risk

A swift move away from upfront commissions could spell the end of non-aligned advice, with only the large independents and aligned groups able to survive the inevitable d...

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Life/Risk

ASIC has banned a Sydney-based insurance broker from the industry for three years after he allegedly failed to pass on collected premiums to insurers. ...

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Financial planning

The political wrangling around financial advice reforms have passed over the heads of most consumers who have yet to be convinced of their relevance according to Adviser ...

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Financial planning

Consumers would be better served if financial planners and risk advisers were required to hold separate licences, Synchron director, Don Trapnell, believes....

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Financial planning

Planners should lift their knowledge about compliance and risk management issues as this area is often overlooked by research houses and is not actively overseen by regul...

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People & Products

Rubik has appointed Iain Dunstan to the role of interim CEO following the departure of Niek Hoogenhout after less than year. ...

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Financial planning

Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre has appointed Peter Vann to develop a funds and wealth management stream....

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Superannuation

Recently introduced penalties are ensuring fewer SMSFs are falling foul of the law, however, there has been a spike in borrowing breaches, new research reveals....

Superannuation

The ATO is going after companies that fail to pay employees super entitlements, recovering $8 million from labour-hire company operators. ...

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Financial planning

Business confidence dropped to its lowest level in December 2014 since August 2011, down 14.4 per cent from November to 105.3....

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Financial planning

The big four banks lag behind the smaller ones with a customer satisfaction rate of 67.6 per cent compared to smaller banks’ 72.2 per cent, Roy Morgan research found....

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Financial planning

The directors and trustees of investment companies carry far less regulatory onus than financial planners, according to Centrepoint Alliance....

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Financial planning

The former director of a foreign exchange provider has been “restrained” from providing financial services after providing services not covered by its licence....

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Superannuation

Calls by the Parliamentary Joint Committee for financial advisers to undertake specialist self-managed super fund training if they advise in this area has received a tick...

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Superannuation

The superannuation industry’s obsession with low fees has wrongly been a focus of the Financial System Inquiry, which should instead be tackling underperformance....

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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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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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