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People who invested in a Packer-backed Challenger Financial Services’ property fund that invested in a Sydney shopping centre will only get a third of their original inve...
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The continuing trend of investment management firms concentrating on either manufacturing or distribution will create a “new independent advice world”, where financial pl...
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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) believes the results of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) most recent Shadow Shopping survey reflect ...
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Australian agribusiness investors have been warned to check the commission their financial planners receive and to access independent research themselves, before making a...
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A senior Westpoint director has accused auditor KPMG of already knowing about the failed developer’s problems before ticking-off its reports....
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Complaints by consumers against financial planners plummeted yet again in 2005 according to the industry’s chief complaints resolutions service, which has also just won a...
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Challenger-owned dealer group Genesys Wealth Advisers is looking to Australia’s high school students to find the next generation of financial planners....
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Since losing a large part of its advisory base, SMF-owned dealer group Lynchpin has changed its name to Wealth Managers, installed a new advisory software provider, and c...
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Despite one in five financial planners falling foul of the corporate regulator in its latest shadow shopping exercise, and the resulting negative coverage in the mainstre...
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Financial planners have received another bad rap from the corporate regulator, with its latest shadow shopping report concluding that close to one in five advisers gave u...
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The Financial Planning Association has said the nature in which commissions were disclosed to Westpoint clients, not just the size of commission payments, should be the m...
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Although financial planners think the Westpoint collapse can be blamed on a host of related parties, they are prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility....
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Axa will expand its advice footprint by purchasing, through its ipac dealership, equity stakes held by advisers in South Australian-based independent business Portfolio P...
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Mariner Financial has moved to boost sales of its equity release product by entering a strategic deal with three dealer groups to offer the products to clients, and launc...
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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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...