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A former Queensland financial planner has been sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to six fraud charges brought by the Australian Securi...
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Members of corporate superannuation fund Westscheme will soon have direct access to a scaled-down version of CARM’s GPS financial planning software, recently badged by AM...
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Defining and managing what the client and the financial planner expect from their business relationship is a key element in providing a successful advisory service accord...
Life/Risk
Business insurance is seen by many advisers as an area to steer well clear of – it is seen as too complex and therefore best left to those who fully understand all the in...
Financial planning
New AC Nielson research has found a marked fall in the number of Australians seeking professional investment advice over the past two years, even though client satisfacti...
Financial planning
An undergraduate degree covering accounting, taxation and financial advising will be offered by the University of Western Sydney from next year, adding an entry point to ...
Financial planning
Australian fund managers spend a lot of time and money wooing financial advisers with junkets, increasingly complex products and, of course, much-debated trail commission...
Financial planning
HBOS Australia has pitched into the low cost direct financial services market with the launch of an Australian equities fund....
Financial planning
The launch of reverse mortgage products into the Australian market could offer individuals without significant super savings the opportunity to create an income stream in...
Superannuation
With the baby boomer generation now entering retirement, or certainly looking down the gun barrel, the focus on retirement income streams, by both the government and fina...
Financial planning
Financial planners are losing a significant portion of their business to technology as the use of online stock brokers skyrockets....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) was prompted to create an example statement of advice (SOA) in response to the Federal Government paper Refine...
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
A financial adviser was banned, another had his operation shut down, and a superannuation scheme promoter jailed for 18 months as a result of three separate actions initi...
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...
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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....