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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

Mercer Human Resource Consulting today launched Mercer Wealth Solutions to provide super fund members with financial advice and information on savings, lifestyle, debt ma...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has slammed a recommendation by the Federal Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that may allow a...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...

Financial planning

Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...

Financial planning

Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...

Financial planning

Women as a target market is an obvious choice, but, as Jason Spits writes, what sets them apart is what financial advisers should be looking at....

Financial planning

The market for financial advice in Europe is highly fragmented according to a report by independent market analyst Datamonitor, with the UK leading the way in the indepen...

Financial planning

Japanese investors are stubbornly ambivalent to the provision of financial advice according to US-based research firm Cerulli Associates, meaning Japanese advisers are co...

Financial planning

Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a permanent ban against a former financial adviser, John Michael Higgins, from providing financia...

Financial planning

A former AMP financial adviser, Laurence John Tobin, has been sentenced to two and a half years jail after pleading guilty to charges laid by the Australian Securities an...

Financial planning

The Snowball Group is continuing to push ahead with a strategy to target financial planning clients through Australia’s corporate heavyweights, signing a strategic allian...

Financial planning

IF THERE was one phrase to illustrate what this year’s Top 100 has revealed, it would have to be “steady as it goes”....

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