FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Treasurer Peter Costello’s mention of the “s” word following his budget address has brought a chorus of approval and demands from the financial services industry....

Financial planning

What does it take to be ethical in financial planning? Professor Stephen Cowan, who will be presenting at the CFP conference in Hobart, says it is all about ex-cellence. ...

Financial planning

Earlier predictions that this year’s job prospects for the financial services industry may plateau have been squashed by continuing strong growth figures in the latest qu...

Financial planning

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has beefed up its financial services presence in Australia and Asia, announcing a merger with Trowbridge Consulting....

Financial planning

The recent flurry of activity among Australia’s online brokers mirrors the price war which hit the US online broking market about three years ago. Stuart Engel examines a...

Financial planning

Project management has come a long way in the past ten years. Once seen as the last job before exiting a company, Stuart Engel discovered project managers are now some of...

Financial planning

A new alliance of eight financial planning firms has launched itself onto the New Zealand market creating one of the largest advisory groupings in the country....

Financial planning

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has beefed up its financial services presence in Australia and Asia, announcing a merger with Trowbridge Consulting....

Financial planning

Wraps meet GST challenge It has been said that wrap accounts will become the ugly ducklings of the industry once they are subject to GST. BT Portfolio Services’ Bill Waw...

Financial planning

Collins House Financial Services (CHFS) is the creation of one of Melbourne’s oldest stockbroking firms and one of Melbourne’s high-profile financial planners. As John W...

Financial planning

Australia's master trusts and wrap accounts are about to undergo a massive shake-up which will leave only five left standing....

Financial planning

Just over a decade ago environmental issues moved out of the backwoods and into the mainstream....

Financial planning

One of IOOF's senior management team, Tony Jacobs, has left the company after the group decided to outsource its taxation advice....

Financial planning

I have been interested in some of the comments made by the press and by even some areas of the financial services industry about the quality of financial planners....

Financial planning

Disclosure obligations under the proposed CLERP 6 legislation may unfairly dis-advantage some advisers, according to Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) national pres...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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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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