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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is to take a practical approach to regulating the new licensing and disclosure regime under the Financial Serv...

Financial planning

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Ross Cameron has written to the chief executives of both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (AFSA) and the...

Financial planning

An industry working party into soft dollar payments has called for the removal of a number of common forms of inducements in its recommendations announced today....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has today taken action in two areas of considerable regulatory focus of late - early release super schemes and...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a timetable for policy proposal papers on the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (Audit Reform...

Financial planning

AMP Financial Services (AMPFS) - having survived a tumultuous year in 2003 - is well positioned to take advantage of an anticipated turnaround in fortune this year accord...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition is claiming a key victory on dollar disclosure within the new Financial Services Reform regime, following the passage last week of amendments to th...

Financial planning

The chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, Senator Grant Chapman, has indicated it may re-examine the issue of risk product di...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has used the last sitting day of Parliament this year to introduce legislation backing the latest iteration of the Corporate Law Economic Reform Pr...

Financial planning

Aurora Funds Management has struck a distribution deal with van Eyk Research and White Funds Management (WFM) less than three weeks after launching Aurora Distribution – ...

People & Products

Australia’s largest ethical investment manager, Hunter Hall Investment Management is set to lose its chief investment officer to a large institution and potentially impac...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has voiced opposition to Labor’s proposed ban on commissions for superannuation guarantee contributions, arguing this would make ...

Life/Risk

When it comes to claims, the most cases assessed relate to disability income, and as Mike Taylor reports, it is an increasing trend....

Financial planning

Financial planning dealer group Associated Planners Financial Services (APFS) announced today, in what will be an industry first, its intentions to turn its back on soft ...

Financial planning

The Labor Party has launched its superannuation policy revealing a number of new steps but has not departed from its core positions of investment choice for all members a...

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