The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reiterated its calls for the Federal Government to enshrine the term 'financial adviser/planner' in legislation, but in sl...
Collapsing institutions and a loss of wealth have combined to give the margin lending industry a bad reputation. Angela Faherty explains why increased legislation and a m...
Liquidators have been appointed to Empower Invest and Newcastle Palais Holdings - two companies that operated an unregistered managed investment scheme - after the compan...
Independent financial planning firm Financial Spectrum has split its business in two, with the spin-off arm Spectrum Wealth Advisers experiencing rapid growth since the s...
The Federal Treasury appears to have left open the question of a statutory compensation scheme covering financial planners, with a review due for completion in January st...
A Perth-based property funds responsible entity has had its AFSL cancelled by ASIC....
Century Funds Management has failed to replace Opus Capital as manager of the troubled Opus 21 property fund, after an insufficient number of unitholders voted on the mat...
The consequences of breaching fiduciary duty under the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms could be much steeper than first thought, with the pos...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has revised the internal dispute resolution (IRD) procedures for financial institutions to help reduce paperwo...
ASIC has taken action against four websites that make false and misleading claims or provide financial services without an AFSL....
Industry fund LUCRF Super has announced it will streamline its intra-fund advice process with the adoption of Provisio Technologies’ rapid advice delivery software....
Club Plus Super's in-house financial planning service has proved to be invaluable, according to the company's chief executive Paul Cahill....
An in-house financial planning service in super funds is a better option for members who receive more personal service and build their understanding of financial issues, ...
An in-house financial planning service in super funds is a better option for members who receive more personal service and build their understanding of financial issues, ...
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has taken a largely sympathetic approach to an option within a Treasury options paper to alter the Australian F...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...