FINANCIAL SERVICES

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has banned a Queensland-based financial adviser for seven years after finding he had used his clients’ assets for his personal benefit. ...

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Financial planning

Operators of ‘binary options trading boiler room’, Jana Jaros and Jackson Capper, have been convicted and sentenced....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has attacked what it sees as a bank planner sales culture likely to impact choice of fund and suggested that policy-makers risked leaving consume...

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Financial planning

FOS has received a record number of disputes in the 2016/17 year, driven mainly by general insurance which made up 38 per cent of the increase....

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People & Products

QMV founder, Mark Vaughan has succeeded fellow founder Michael Quinn as managing director of superannuation consulting and technology firm, QMV....

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Features

Money Management’s 2013 Woman of the Year, Fiona Trafford-Walker, looks at steps firms can take to help overcome challenges women face in the workplace....

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Editorial

The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...

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People & Products

Euroz Securities chief executive, Robert Black has been elevated to the firm’s parent company, Euroz Limited, board....

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Editorial

The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...

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Features

Equal gender representation in the financial services industry remains elusive, as unconscious bias, the gender pay gap, and rigid working conditions prevent women from b...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that a broad cross-section of the financial services industry has voiced its concerns about a compensation scheme of last resort but few appear to be l...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government flagged the existence of a loophole in last year’s Budget and the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer has admitted a handful of mili...

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People & Products

A partnership between Fortnum and Moneysoft will see the dealer group’s planners helping clients with a digital money management solution....

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Editorial

Recent federal ministerial rhetoric suggests the financial services industry has few friends in high places and difficulty in finding its voice, Mike Taylor writes....

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People & Products

Suncorp has recruited internally to fill the key role of chief program excellence officer to coordinate the firm’s business plan deliverables....

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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...

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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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