FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

News that BHP offshoot OneSteel is to outsource its superannuation has sent rip-ples of excitement through the financial services industry....

Financial planning

Your average person is usually at great pains to avoid admitting their mistakes, especially when it comes to the future of financial planning. But then again, Tom Collins...

Financial planning

The Victorian State Government is forming a committee from the financial services industry to push Melbourne as a regional financial centre....

Financial planning

Melbourne’s John Hewison has been elected the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) new chairman of the board....

Superannuation

Some of the biggest players in the financial services industry have entered the bat-tle to claim the biggest outsourcing of a corporate superannuation fund in Austra-lia’...

Financial planning

The Victorian State Government is forming a committee from the financial services industry to push Melbourne as a regional financial centre....

Financial planning

Online broker TD Waterhouse has launched an aggressive campaign in a bid to gain a dominant share of the managed funds broking market....

Financial planning

A recent report by Rice Kachor predicts that Australia’s financial services industry will swing convincingly to the retail side of the industry by 2010. Stuart Engel look...

Financial planning

Then there were three. In a similar situation as last year, with the acquisition of KPMG Financial services by St George, the financial services industry now sees an-othe...

Financial planning

Switzerland-based fund manager SAM Group has produced the world’s first index for ethical investments....

Financial planning

Last month, a former Perth financial adviser was sentenced to the second longest jail term of any financial adviser in Australia when he was sentenced to 10 years behind ...

Financial planning

The financial services industry is battling CLERP6 legislation which could cost dealers, brokers and advisers hundreds of thousands of dollars each in CGT and stamp duty....

Financial planning

Three developments over the past few weeks point to a major surge in the purchase of managed funds without advice and a major headache for advisers without their fingers ...

Financial planning

Reaction to the recent federal budget has been fairly subdued with most industry analysts noting the lack of news for the financial services industry....

Financial planning

There has been a significant and consistent move forwards in professionalism in retail financial services....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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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