FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The financial services industry is on a 'short fuse’ and will see a 'big bang’ as companies stand to see substantial digital disruption within the next three years. ...

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Financial planning

Business and compliance matters have distracted planners away from client needs with planners still approaching advice as cottage industry...

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Superannuation

The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) data showed life insurance net profit after tax stood at $2.7 billion, with super making up a huge chunk....

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Editorial

While there are currently more women than men in financial services, it’s still a dim picture when it comes to gender diversity at the top. Kate Cowling investigates the ...

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Financial planning

The BFP claims a structural flaw has allowed banks, insurers and super funds to dress up product sales as advice....

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Financial planning

The financial services industry will pay $30 million less to be regulated after the Federal Government released details of the levies that it will be charged to fund the ...

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Funds management

Overseeing $30 billion in funds under advice and leading a team of 10 investment professionals in the highly demanding investment research business before the age of 30 a...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed AMP group executive insurance and superannuation Pauline Blight-Johnston to its board....

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Financial planning

Northern Trust has appointed William Mak as its Asia Pacific region head, succeeding Teresa Parker. ...

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Editorial

While many Australians will resent a Federal Budget which includes a lifting of the pension age to 70, such a move is likely to generate plenty of business and new produc...

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Superannuation

New survey data has backed the Government’s approach on all approved MySuper products being eligible as default funds....

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Superannuation

Meeting the diverse needs of SMSFs will present the financial services industry with both challenges and opportunities, writes Tim Keegan....

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Financial planning

Wealth Within has sought to defend its reputation in the face of fines imposed by the corporate regulator for misleading advertising....

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Superannuation

SPAA supports ASIC’s drive for tougher measures to tackle the 'bad apples’ of the financial services industry....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC is right to pursue managers with just as much vigour as it pursues financial planners when things go wrong. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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