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Financial planning

The regulator has cracked down on a Mount Waverly adviser found to have falsely witnessed loan documents for agribusiness investments....

Financial planning

The Financial Ombudsman Service wants ASIC to be empowered to better track the movement of planners between groups....

Financial planning

What becomes relevant information for financial advice is being influenced by data collector expertise....

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Financial planning

ASIC has initiated multiple criminal charges against the former company secretary and a former director of a failed Geelong-based financial investment firm, Chartwell Ent...

Superannuation

A boutique fund manager has teamed up with a financial planning firm and a stockbroker to offer a direct property fund for the self-managed superannuation fund market....

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Financial planning

A current trend to defer the sale of planning businesses until the next bull market could result in an oversupply in future years, according to consultant Kenyon Prendevi...

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Financial planning

A Financial Planner Registration Board should be created to "protect consumers from Storm Financial and Westpoint-style losses", according to Puzzle Financial Advice dire...

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Financial planning

ASX200 outperforms two-thirds of active funds over five years and half of all active funds over the last year....

Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has acquired a Japanese-based boutique investment distribution business as part of a strategy to take advantage of opportunities in Asia Pacific's l...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's proposed consumer education campaign 'Swimming Between the Flags' could leave it open to prosecution, according to ...

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Financial planning

ASIC's 'Swimming Between the Flags' campaign is set to receive a mixed reception from planners....

Financial planning

Western Australian company director Malcolm John MacCormick has pleaded not guilty in the Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court to an insider trading charge....

Financial planning

ALENA MILES considers estate planning strategies unique to self-managed super funds....

Financial planning

New research has revealed the degree to which investors have fled agribusiness MIS schemes in the wake of the Timbercorp and Great Southern collapses....

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Financial planning

Ensuring planning licensees get paid the same for recommending an unlisted managed fund or a listed security would result in a better deal for consumers, according to Puz...

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