FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR

Financial planning

The financial services sector needs a new ASIC commissioner specifically to deal with international regulatory issues....

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Financial planning

Changes to regulatory regimes should not come at extra cost to the financial services sector but from alignment of current regimes....

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Financial planning

Infighting within the financial services sector could let down a generation of investors, a leading business consultant believes....

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Financial planning

ASIC wants the financial services sector to take the lead in developing standards for the issuance of complex products....

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Policy & Regulation

Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann, claims the Opposition’s efforts to create a further Senate inquiry into the planning industry is political opportunism at work....

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Financial planning

The FSC said Australian funds managers will gain cross-border access, and the financial services sector will benefit from the Japan Australia Economic Partnership Agreeme...

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Financial planning

Merging banking and financial services recruiters, Profusion Group and Primary Asset Consulting (PAC) will ensure businesses within the sector have access to essential da...

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Financial planning

Leaked trade deal tipped to have catastrophic consequences....

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Financial planning

Businesses in the Australian financial services and insurance sector are among the countries top users of IT, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. ...

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Financial planning

The financial services sector is dragging its feet when it comes to online business transactions, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said....

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Financial planning

More than one-in-three financial institutions are planning pay increases for staff within the next six months, a survey of human resources managers claims....

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Financial planning

The Financial Service Inquiry is unlikely to drive deep changes to the financial services sector according to an analysis of the 270 submissions made to the inquiry....

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Financial planning

Business and compliance matters have distracted planners away from client needs with planners still approaching advice as cottage industry...

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Financial planning

Acute skill shortages in the wealth management sector have given planners the leverage they need to demand higher salaries, a survey has revealed. ...

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Financial planning

Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, bank employees and SMSFs should all be subject to common regulation, according to Chan and Naylor’s David Hasib....

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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The FSCP has announced its latest verdict, suspending an adviser’s registration for failing to comply with his obligations when providing advice to three clients....

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