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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued 13 interim stop orders as a result of its ongoing surveillance of the new product disclosure regime...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC) examination of financial planning groups named as having produced ‘very poor’ plans in the regulator’s recent...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has found there are low levels of compliance by a number of promoters of tax driven mass-marketed schemes afte...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) will act against individual firms named in a damning report released this week on the quality of financial pl...

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments is predicting another year of disappointing returns for investors in both Australian and international equity markets, while listed property could a...

Financial planning

A serious rift is developing between consumers and the financial planning industry over the release of a damning report criticising the quality of financial planning advi...

Financial planning

The financial planning industry will face a wave of criticism after the release today of a damning report on the quality of financial planning advice....

People & Products

ING has announced that Tony Hartley will succeed Mike Goodall as executive director responsible for dealer groups, following Goodall’s resignation late last year....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has responded to industry concerns about the costs of “unnecessary” training requirements under the Financial ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a fresh warning to responsible entities (REs) of managed investment schemes that to comply with the...

Financial planning

Australian fund managers remain widely optimistic regarding the likely performance of capital markets in 2003 according to a survey conducted by Mercer Investment Consult...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial planner has been issued with an order from the Federal court restraining him from receiving money in connection with the supply of financial product...

Financial planning

BT has introduced a new series of style-based wholesale funds on its Wrap platform in collaboration with InTech and several investment managers....

Financial planning

The Intech Financial Services research group has rejigged its benchmarks for investment performance to reflect the litany of fund managers who disappear from the radar sc...

Financial planning

Former Commonwealth Bank (CBA) senior executive John Mulcahy has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of Suncorp Metway....

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