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Lifestyle Investment Property this month launched a new investment scheme despite being subject to a winding up notice from the Australian Tax Office....

Financial planning

Financial Services could soon be the latest product line for network marketers similar to those who have reshaped the cosmetics and healthcare industries....

Financial planning

New Zealand domiciled managed funds investing in Australian and New Zealand equities have filled the majority of Morningstar's list of top ten performers for the quarter ...

Financial planning

How much of your time is spent advising on risk products? Do you outsource?...

Financial planning

I remember, when discretionary master trusts were becoming popular in the mid-nineties, business development managers (BDMs) employed by fund managers were concerned abou...

Financial planning

A recent study has found that financial advisers are less aware of their Y2K than they ought to be. John Desmond outlines the findings of the survey and the impact of the...

Financial planning

Do you offer a housing loan service to your clients? Why/Why not?...

Financial planning

“Hello, Nick Bruining speaking.”...

Financial planning

IFSA’s first comprehensive financial services conference will kick off on Monday evening, July 19 and run through until 5pm Wednesday July 21 at Melbourne’s Convention Ce...

Financial planning

The question “are banks a threat to your business” (Money Management Adviser Feedback March 18) is essentially asking whether banks will be a viable competitor and steal ...

Financial planning

Wrap accounts have been one of the big conversation starters at recent industry gabfests. Paul Resnik asks if the whole debate is missing the most important person, the c...

Financial planning

PolicyLink founder Bernard Kelly jetted off last week to open an office in South Africa. It will trade in life insurance policies and is expected to generate turnover of ...

Financial planning

The Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation will become as well recognised as the Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) within ten years, according to a visiting CF...

Financial planning

National Mutual is to sell a wholesale superannuation master trust through independent advisers — the first time it has gone outside its tied distribution network....

Financial planning

Regulators are set to apply the heat to financial planning groups and broking groups on Y2K readiness, following apparent apathy over the problem....

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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

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 1 day ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

1 week 6 days ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

3 weeks ago