FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

There is no shortage of research, both anecdotal and academic which states that past performance is mixed blessing but any pursuit of it is bound to fail....

Financial planning

This year will see the FSRA come into force in financial planning practices everywhere, but what else is on the agenda? JULIE BENNETT reports....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has expressed deep concern at the Federal Government’s decision to allow accountants relief under the Financial Services Reform Act to ...

Funds management

As the financial services industry heads into a new year a backward glance at 2003 shows that while it may have been the Year of the Horse, it was also the Year of the Bo...

Financial planning

Zurich Financial Services Australia has bolstered its technical services team with the appointment of two specialists in response to adviser demand for additional regulat...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has appointed a deputy chief executive officer John O'Shaughnessy, following the recent decision by the then depu...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put institutions with aligned advisers on notice after a recent surveillance project found that commission...

Financial planning

The Government’s proposed fee disclosure regulations have been defeated in the Senate, with the Australian Labor Party’s motion to disallow the draft rules passed with th...

Financial planning

A Melbourne financial adviser has been permanently banned from the industry after falling for a Nigerian letter scam....

Financial planning

The Victorian State Government is set to release an action plan to boost the number of financial services companies in Melbourne....

Financial planning

Fund managers have followed financial services industry groups in giving their approval to the changes to superannuation and retirement income streams announced yesterday...

Funds management

IOOF retail funds management general manager Jarrod Brown has boosted his team with the appointment of ANZ Managed Investments executive Andrew Polson into the role of he...

Financial planning

Former executive director of Harts Australasia, Maxwell John Sweetman, has faced insider trading charges levelled against him by the Australian Securities and Investments...

Financial planning

The former chief executive of Wealthpoint Brett Sanders has announced his return to the financial services industry, heading up boutique asset consultant Grove Financial ...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has criticised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for providing an exemption from the Financial Services Reform regime to mortgag...

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