FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Australian shares look likely to maintain their status as an investor “safe haven” compared with other share markets, a panel of the financial services industry’s top chi...

Financial planning

Royal and SunAlliance’s (R&SA) recently developed financial services division has placed Wayne Baker into the newly created position of national sales manager....

Financial planning

Minister for Financial Services Joe Hockey paid tribute to the Australian and global financial services industry this morning at the launch of the Securities Institute’s ...

Financial planning

The financial services industry has been given an extra six months to prepare for the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), after a starting date of 11 March, 2002, was ...

People & Products

ING Financial Planning chief executive officer Mark Spiers has joined the board of InvestorWeb as a non-executive director....

Financial planning

Small dealer groups will be the fastest-growing sector of financial planning in the next five years, says industry commentator Tom Collins....

Financial planning

Tom Collins reckons the Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament will make life easier for unscrupulous operators and tougher for the honest opertors. H...

Financial planning

Ex-PriceWaterhouseCoopers partner Tony Rumble and ex-ING strategist Tony Negline have teamed up to start up research venture, Savings Factory....

Financial planning

The job outlook for the financial services industry has registered only the slightest improvement, according to the latest TMP Worldwide job index figures....

Financial planning

High profile industry figure John Godfrey has assembled some of the best-known names in the financial services industry to form what he says is Australia’s first “co-ordi...

Financial planning

Former Perpetual Investments managing director Rodney Green has resurfaced in the financial services industry, joining the Melbourne based Treasury Group....

Financial planning

Fresh off the back of the alienation of personal services income legislation and the Financial Services Reform Bill (FSRB), the financial services industry has yet anothe...

Financial planning

Globalisation of the Australian financial services industry could take up to 10 years, says McKinsey and Company managing partner John Stuckey....

Financial planning

Chris Smith has left his post as national manager of multi-advisers with Zurich Financial Services to take on the national business manager position at partly owned Zuric...

Financial planning

Well-known financial services figure Bonnie Guilford has departed AMP Financial Planning and joined Timbercorp in the newly created position of marketing and technical ma...

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

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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....

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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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