FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Tribeca Corporation, parent company of the IntegraTec Group, has confirmed it will focus on providing services and products solely to the financial services industry, wit...

Financial planning

Just over a week ago, on June 11, the long awaited and much feted Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) passed the three month mark since it became a law and ended the lon...

Financial planning

The highly competitive race to become the pre-eminent provider of straight through processing services to the Australian managed fund market came to a head last week, wit...

Financial planning

A fair days wage for a fair days work is still the catchcry for most working people but does the same apply to the financial services industry. Jason Spits looks at what ...

Financial planning

Online share trading group E-Shares has had its plans to push into the financial planning market thwarted after its agreement to purchase Norgard Clohessy Financial Plann...

Financial planning

The chief executive of the Australian Consumer Association (ACA) Lousie Sylvan has criticised the financial planning industry for low levels of disclosure and for the fal...

Financial planning

HISTORY does not repeat itself. Business cycles, market trends and business opportunities, if missed 10 years ago, do not represent themselves for a second bite of the ch...

People & Products

The former managing director of Chifley Financial Services’ financial planning division, Peter Dawson, has resurfaced in the financial services industry for the first tim...

Financial planning

The key to future financial planning groups will be selling the relationship, not what platforms the dealer group is using, says Strategic Consulting and Training managin...

Financial planning

From an early age, Kevin Bailey knew he wanted to be involved in financial services. However, when you’re a teenager and there is no such occupation as a financial planne...

Financial planning

Besieged former Harts Australasia executive chairman Steve Hart has denied he is now working as an unpaid non listed director of a Queensland based consultancy group run ...

Financial planning

Last year the industry was abuzz with discussion centred around a paper called Hypercompetition. Now, as JASON SPITS writes, a follow-up report has been released and the ...

Financial planning

Margin lending has continued to grab the interest and attention of the financial services industry with JDV announcing the rollout of a margin lending back office allianc...

Financial planning

William M Mercer has bounced back from yesterday’s deal collapse with van Eyk Research, continuing its push into the retail financial services market by signing a consult...

Editorial

Former managing director and publisher of Morningstar Australia, Graham Rich has resurfaced in the financial services industry with a business venture that will capitalis...

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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 2 weeks ago

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

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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....

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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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