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AMP Financial Services managing director Craig Dunn and Colonial First State chief executive John Pearce have been promoted to the roles of chair and deputy chair of the ...
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A group of the Federal Government’s own backbenchers is urging it to cut taxes on superannuation, with some calling for even more radical changes, such as allowing younge...
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With the FPA’s television commercials set to begin screening in two weeks, the association has gone into warm-up mode, with chief executive Kerrie Kelly today distributin...
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Last week financial planners were given the first solid indication of what they will have to pay to comply with looming anti-money laundering legislation....
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Financial planning groups have been given the chance to break down any barriers preventing them from pushing into the American financial services market as part of negoti...
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An example SOA has now been published by ASIC, intended to provide guidance to planners on the giving of documented financial advice. So is the regulator up to scratch wh...
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The Financial Planning Association’s looming $3 million consumer advertising campaign won’t be a tit-for-tat style counter punch against the industry superannuation fund’...
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The financial services industry says the Federal Government went a long way yesterday to arresting fears that any proposed anti-money laundering legislation would heap un...
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The FPA has told financial advisers not to be afraid of possible costs to their business that will be imposed when the Government releases its long awaited anti-money lau...
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The Federal Government has come a step closer to formulating new legislation to combat money laundering in a third meeting on the topic with key industry representatives ...
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Despite recent criticism by the corporate regulator, financial planners have won a major concession that will allow them to recommend clients change super funds, even if ...
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The corporate regulator’s 12-page example SOA has been welcomed by the FPA, but criticised by the Federal Opposition for still being too long....
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Many a financial planner would have spat out their coffee last June when news of the biggest potential shake-up of financial planning education landed on their desk. A sm...
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Melbourne dealer group Lonsdale Financial Group has proved that Statements of Advice (SOA) do not need to be long and complex, reducing their disclosure documents to just...
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It’s taken nearly five years, in which time it’s been dwarfed as a financial services issue in Australia by the launch of the Financial Services Reform Act, but a global ...
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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,...