FINANCIAL SERVICES

People & Products

KPMG has acquired technology consultancy, Markets IT, as it builds out its capital markets strategy....

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Financial planning

A Queenslander who raised more than $1.5 million from investors – including members of his own family – without an AFSL has been permanently restrained from providing fin...

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Financial planning

Qualified financial services candidates in short supply in NT but employers not willing to grow their own CFPs, according to new research....

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a former ANZ authorised representative for 10 years for contravening financial services laws via misleading and deceptive conduct....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers were ‘pawns’ in the financial industry to distribute products in the past, but this will no longer cut muster, a consultant firm principal believes. ...

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Financial planning

Life/risk advisers should already be moving towards new post-LIF remuneration models....

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Financial planning

Financial services sector workers will have plenty of choice when it comes to employment options in 2016, recruitment firm, Robert Half, forecasts....

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People & Products

Mortgage firm, MoneyQuest, recruits former Mortgage Choice chief executive, Michael Russell, as its new CEO and managing director....

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Financial planning

The mainstream media’s over-reaction to normal market events is damaging the financial services industry....

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Financial planning

The Italian Azimut-backed Paul Barrett-led AZ NGA has signed up another planning business - Harvest Wealth....

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Superannuation

AustralianSuper CEO, Ian Silk, details ‘shameful’ conduct of financial services organisations....

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Financial planning

Financial difficulty disputes declined by 12 per cent over the last 12 months despite the controversies engulfing the planning sector....

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Financial planning

Despite moves to make the advice industry more transparent, it was surprising that direct property was still not a financial product, according to financial planner Lisa ...

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Financial planning

Deloitte Australia has today launched a new centre to assist financial services companies manage regulatory challenges across Asia Pacific....

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Financial planning

A NSW-based tax and credit agent has been banned from providing financial services for four years after signing off on false documents created by his ex-wife....

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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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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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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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