FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Editorial

There may be nothing illegal about the direct marketing tactics being employed by some financial services companies, but when the regulator starts dealing with the conseq...

Financial planning

The New Zealand financial planning market is a good testing ground to expand globally: Tony Hartley....

Financial planning

Concerns that G20 summit will fail to adequately address the regulatory deficits uncovered by the global financial crisis....

Financial planning

A survey of APRA stakeholders suggests they are mostly happy with the regulator, but not on all counts....

Financial planning

A review by ASIC may see ratings houses handed more power to control which product manufacturers use their analyses and how they are used....

Financial planning

Further signs have emerged of a recovery in the financial services jobs market, but off a very low base....

Financial planning

BENJAMIN LEVY reports on the growing use of reverse mortgages to shore up diminishing client wealth....

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Editorial

The financial services industry needs to be alert to the fact that the Government is tightening regulatory control of the industry and its markets – not in a legislative ...

Financial planning

Tim Gunning has resigned as general manager of Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP), with CFP national manager David Mackay already in place as acting general manager....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services is attempting to reposition the group in anticipation of a possible removal of commission-based income....

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Financial planning

FPA chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch tells Parliamentary Inquiry it must not focus on just certain groups....

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Editorial

When the industry funds refer to “vertically integrated financial institutions” they are really referring to the major banks and insurance companies. And they are right. ...

Editorial

The cost of providing financial advice has not been readily measured or quantified across the industry, writes Paul Barrett....

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Editorial

Col Fullagar considers the plight of orphan clients who try to make an insurance claim....

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Financial planning

The new world will require advisers to 'anticipate and recalibrate' as markets start to normalise away from the easy-investing environment of the past 20 years....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 3 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

1 week 6 days ago

ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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