FINANCIAL SERVICES REFORM

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

With the end of the financial year fast approaching it is worth looking at some the hot issues that the IFSA membership is grappling with and which will become priorities...

Financial planning

Education providers are scrambling for position to exploit opportunities raised by the Financial Services Reform Bill....

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual has rebranded its life insurance broking arm into a dealer group, AustAdvis-ers, in a bid to attract planners seeking a solution to licensing changes sl...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will gain sweeping powers to ban advisers under CLERP 6 draft legislation, according to an industry lawyer....

Financial planning

Now that the dust has settled on ASIC’s long awaited master trust and wraps pol-icy, most in the industry are enthusiastic about its implementation....

Financial planning

Joe Hockey’s office is likely to be bombarded with reams and reams of responses to the federal government’s draft CLERP 6 legislation....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is claiming a “partial victory” on the issue of commission disclosure as outlined in the Financial Services Reform Bill (CLERP...

Financial planning

January 1, 2001 has been slated as implementation date for CLERP 6 changes....

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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...

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...

3 weeks ago

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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