FINANCIAL SERVICES REFORM

Editorial

While people are generally reluctant to embrace change, the more proficient financial advisers will adjust swiftly to their new landscape following proposed FOFA amendmen...

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Editorial

Frequent changes in the law mean compliance issues can often be a legal minefield. Here, lawyers David Court, Sonnie Bailey and Kathryn Wardrobe answer three frequently a...

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People & Products

Dealer group Infocus Money Management has recruited Lyn Dixon as the new head of professional standards and compliance, to support, supervise and train advisers in the fi...

Editorial

With the Government’s release of its Future of Financial Advice proposals, Mike Taylor writes that the financial planning industry now has a tangible target at whic...

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Editorial

Financial planners could be forgiven for suffering reform fatigue - and the release, last week, of Richard St John's consultation paper, Review of compensation arrangemen...

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Financial planning

Care needs to be taken in mandating a 'best interest' or fiduciary-like duty, because it would imply that one did not already exist, according to Argyle Lawyers principal...

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Editorial

The Future of Financial Advice changes may be dominating the attention of the financial services industry but Richard Gilbert points out that the Government has a great d...

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Editorial

Stewart Bell looks at the proposed Future of Financial Advice reforms and the changes they have already brought to the industry....

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Financial planning

Planning firms have moved into mortgage broking because of the poor quality of the advice handed out by brokers....

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Editorial

Rather that focusing exclusively on the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the Government needs to clear up all the outstanding policy issues in financial services, writ...

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Editorial

When even municipal councils were subjected to multi-million dollar losses through the global financial crisis, Mike Taylor writes that the Government has few options oth...

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Financial planning

The underlying product thresholds defining retail and wholesale investments are set to double as the Government canvasses new rules....

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Editorial

As the Government implements its financial services reforms throughout 2011 and beyond, it can either choose to do things the 'hard way'; or the ';easy way', writes Mike ...

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Financial planning

Richard Klipin takes a look at 2010 and the impact it has had on the financial planning industry....

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Financial planning

The entry-level requirements for the provision of financial advice may soon be lifted from their very low base, with the corporate regulator undertaking consultation with...

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2 months ago

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...

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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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