FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR

Financial planning

Ripoll Inquiry chairman Bernie Ripoll signals end to single licensing regime for financial planning industry....

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Policy & Regulation

A director of a South Australian-based advice firm has called for a temporary suspension of payroll tax to allow small and medium sized businesses, including advice firms...

Financial planning

Further signs have emerged of a recovery in the financial services jobs market, but off a very low base....

Financial planning

A new survey of employment intentions forecasts a rebound in the last quarter but suggests financial services will not be so buoyant....

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Financial planning

The Victorian Government has launched another campaign aimed at attracting financial services companies to the state....

Editorial

WHEN Money Management recently reported that recruitment agencies were advertising non-existent roles, it raised a broader issue of what constitutes acceptable and ethica...

Financial planning

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has called for remuneration and incentive schemes in the financial services sector to be structured to match the long-t...

Financial planning

Corporate governance ranking agency head Lynn Ralph expresses doubt over APRA superannuation league tables....

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Financial planning

The Bank of Queensland is believed to have threatened to sue clients of Storm Financial for misrepresenting their income - a response that is now in stark contrast to CBA...

People & Products

Industry representatives have welcomed the appointment of Chris Bowen to the Financial Services portfolio while paying tribute to the efforts of Senator Nick Sherry, who ...

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Financial planning

Salary freezes and reductions, job cuts and drawn-out recruitment processes: challenging times lie ahead, but the diversity of the financial services sector means a varie...

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Financial planning

Government moves to stamp out risky investment behaviour will lead to greater scrutiny of remuneration in the financial services sector, particularly at the executive lev...

Financial planning

A number of financial services companies, including advice firms, could have to review their employee share options for next year in line with the Federal Budget provisio...

Editorial

Everyone agrees it is difficult to market time and there’s no point in trying to pick the bottom of the market. Yet every second conversation in the markets today revolve...

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Financial planning

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission appears to have set a precedent by granting a conditional immunity from prosecution that enables the Mortgage and Finan...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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