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Financial planning

Trustees of superannuation funds have been given an extra year by the corporate regulator to provide Product Disclosure Statements to members that are meant to detail dif...

Superannuation

Last June the corporate watchdog went on the attack in the Apple Isle. As most people have probably heard by now, their victim, Hobart based adviser and authorised repres...

Financial planning

AXA Australia will pay an extra $10 million to members of its staff superannuation fund, after complaints from employees lead to an investigation by both the Australian S...

Financial planning

Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...

Superannuation

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Financial planning

Claiming to have no knowledge of the existence of Financial Services Reform, applying for a financial services license just days before the new regime was due to kick in ...

Financial planning

The paperwork burden of financial advisers was lightened late yesterday by the corporate watchdog, who gave advisers the OK to produce Financial Services Guides more tail...

Funds management

The Financial Planning Association is calling for real estate agents to operate under a national regulatory regime that it hopes will help put a stop to investors being b...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has forced an undertaking from one promoter of wealth creation seminars and won a court case against another g...

Financial planning

A marriage break up and a death in the family formed part of the reason why Hobart based financial planner Brendan Moore did not give four of his clients statements of ad...

Financial planning

A Tasmanian financial planner has become the first scalp in the corporate watchdog’s new super switching campaign, after not giving his clients statements of advice....

Financial planning

The Opposition has slammed the final choice of fund regulations released by the Federal Government yesterday as costly, complex and unsafe....

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services Group has confirmed it is in discussions with HSBC to acquire HSBC Asset Management (Australia), as first flagged by Money Management yester...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has opted to restructure its regulatory team rather than appoint a direct replacement for outgoing executive director...

Financial planning

The Federal Government will move to override state laws in order to give employees on state based employment awards the option to choose their own superannuation fund....

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