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Accounting

Accountants have warmly welcomed the recommendation by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (PJCCFS) to allow them to provide advice o...

Financial planning

Aviva is offering financial support to dealer groups seeking to gain their own Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) and states it has now helped secure over 50 AF...

Financial planning

Financial planners are set to face competition from an unlikely source - the medical profession, following a Melbourne-based start-up education provider Feest Financial T...

Financial planning

Asteron, the financial services arm of listed insurer Promina, has restructured its Australasian senior ranks, resulting in a number of new appointments across the group....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has again moved successfully against the promoter of an illegal early release of superannuation scheme....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has converted its pursuit of five options trading seminar operators into an enforceable undertaking with the Federal ...

Financial planning

Accountants have received support to provide advice on all non-self managed superannuation structures after a recommendation by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corpo...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned two West Australians for providing financial advice after the pair were caught operatin...

Financial planning

The Federal Court in Brisbane has prevent the trustee of a self-managed superannuation fund from offering any services or advice involvement in a scheme illegally promoti...

Financial planning

Two senior executives at Financial Wisdom, national manager Brian Dau and Victorian state manager, Theo Christopoulof have broken ranks to establish their own boutique de...

Financial planning

A former Securitor Financial Group and Financial Wisdom adviser has been committed to stand trial over allegations of dishonesty and improper behaviour stemming from an A...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has expressed deep concern at the Federal Government’s decision to allow accountants relief under the Financial Services Reform Act to ...

Financial planning

Queensland financial planning firms Gunther Doyle Griffin, Swan Financial Group and Brisbane-based Associated Planners have merged to create a new group, 4people....

Superannuation

A Brisbane broker has been forced to accept a permanent injunction preventing him from granting clients early access to their superannuation lump sums....

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has declared its membership is geared for Financial Services Reform (FSR), with 97 per cent of its principal members having recei...

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