FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Promina’s financial services division, Asteron, has made a flurry of key appointments to its marketing and distribution team in an effort to realign the division and driv...

Financial planning

Tribeca Learning has signed up almost 900 advisers to its online continuing education service OnTrack, with two new institutional clients bringing numbers to 6,500 since ...

Financial planning

Despite a record haul of enforcement outcomes for the 2002/03 financial year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has pledged to be even more ruth...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has moved to shore up what it perceives as a gap in knowledge standards available for financial planners who provide advice on listed ...

Financial planning

Potential changes in legislation have made dealing with reasonable benefit limits (RBLs) for superannuation more complex, despite Government claims it is simpler, says To...

Financial planning

Risk selling is about selling relationships, not products. Julie Bennett and Freya Purnell report....

Financial planning

The introduction of Financial Services Reform (FSR) legislation seems to be frightening many advisers – but life advisers appear to be particularly concerned. John Wilkin...

Financial planning

IOOF has lost a protracted case in the Supreme Court of Victoria in which two financial advisers alledged the group sold building society offices held by them to the Bend...

Financial planning

Fiducian Financial Services is close to striking a collection of deals to significantly increase the scope and presence of its national financial planning franchise netwo...

Financial planning

Fiducian Portfolio Services managing director Indy Singh says his company is in discussion with several groups, including a national accounting group, over the provision ...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is seeking direction from Government, and in turn the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, on guarantees to prote...

Financial planning

Planners have next to no education in the area of direct property investment, which, according to some industry commentators, is a serious oversight. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (OFPC) has released guidelines on what happens to client data when financial advisers move to another dealer group....

Financial planning

ING has made a swathe of upgrades to its Integra superannuation fund as it attempts to market the product as a “more rounded” offering rather than standing out for any on...

Financial planning

Financial advisers have been called on to do themselves and the industry a favour by driving ‘bad eggs’ out of the industry....

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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