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The placement of a Victorian vendor of equity release products into voluntary administration on Monday has intensified warnings to retirees to take extreme care before bu...
Financial planning
With the value of the reverse mortgage market tipped to skyrocket to be worth $7 billion, an industry association has warned investors to beware of substandard products a...
Funds management
Boutique property fund manager APN Funds Management is bidding to give advisers access to direct property through platforms with the launch of a new fund....
Financial planning
An adviser who sought to encourage people into self-managed superannuation funds by helping them locate lost super accounts has been convicted in the Federal Court and or...
Financial planning
All eyes were on Ian Johnston as advisers came to terms with the most significant regulatory changes in many years...
Financial planning
Newcastle-based dealer group Forsythes Financial Services has been forced to retract an advertisement the Australian Securities and Investments Commission considered misl...
Financial planning
AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Dunn and Colonial First State chief executive John Pearce have been promoted to the roles of chair and deputy chair of the ...
Financial planning
There are very few genuinely new products in financial services. Usually they are variations on an existing theme, and structured products fall very much into this catego...
Life/Risk
ING has repackaged its entire life insurance range into a single product, introduced two new types of cover and will allow client to access family discounts, as part of a...
Editorial
Few financial products have a greater potential to tug at Australians’ emotions than reverse mortgages, according to Kieren Dell, executive director of the Senior Austral...
Financial planning
The advantages Scamseek adds to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) efforts to track web scams and illegal financial schemes are best illustrated...
Financial planning
A Perth financial adviser who misused $200,000 of clients’ funds has been banned permanently from providing financial services by ASIC....
Financial planning
The Ethical Investment Association has launched a certification program for providers of SRI products and services, which it hopes will promote consistency and make it ea...
Financial planning
ASIC has expanded its compliance team, with Carole Ferguson joining in the new position of director, institutional and wholesale compliance....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...