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Financial planning

ASIC has reiterated its intention to scrutinise the role of financial advisers in Westpoint’s failed mezzanine property lending products after the Federal opposition leve...

Financial planning

The Australian Agribusiness Group has attacked the level of commissions charged for agribusiness products claiming they are too high and effectively stifling these projec...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has, for the first time in its history, created a role of chief executive officer, and appointed Richard Klipin, ING’s former head o...

Financial planning

The AIOFP has criticised the FPA’s comments last week that investors, not planners, were responsible for money lost through investments in Westpoint-associated products, ...

Financial planning

Creditors who lost money from failed investments attributed to Westpoint are preparing to launch a class action against the financial planners who helped sell them the pr...

Financial planning

ASIC has made its regulatory presence felt in the superannuation choice of fund environment with exercises such as super switching surveillance and a current shadow shopp...

Financial planning

Focussing on providing services to the adviser and not the licence holder will be the major focus for the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) in 2006, says president ...

Financial planning

Hub service provider InvestmentLink has acquired a 50 per cent stake of Dealer Management System that will allow it to develop systems to enable financial advisers to hav...

Financial planning

IOOF will revamp its administrative platform for financial advisers by splitting its existing offering in half....

Financial planning

ASIC has released a calculator for consumers to compare allocated pension products, and Chant West and SuperRatings expect to follow suit by developing extensions to thei...

Financial planning

With new anti-money laundering legislation expected any day, Ernst & Young partner Rob Walsh has warned financial advisers that the Government will expect them to practic...

Financial planning

Ignore the wave of increasing community involvement at your own peril. These words of warning for financial planners came from Coca-Cola Amatil’s chair David Gonski, spea...

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

Australia needs a “risk champion” to encourage younger people to enter into the risk industry, according to MetLife senior vice-president Joe Jordan....

Life/Risk

The Association of Financial Advisers has launched a year-long training program to try to attract younger risk advisers to the profession....

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