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Frontier Advisors has bolstered its consulting team with five new hires. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the financial services licence of AAA Shares, a national dealer group based in Adelaide....

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People & Products

Brett Chatfield has stepped down as Fidante's institutional business development manager (BDM) to take up the role of investment manager public markets at Cbus....

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Financial planning

MLC has launched a consulting service for ultra-high net worth and small institutional investors called Portfolio Solutions, with Michael Karagianis to head the team....

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Financial planning

It was Michelle Tate-Lovery's drive to professionalism and focus on client education which won her the 2012 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year title. Milana P...

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Financial planning

Most retail investors rely on themselves, their friends or family or the media for investment advice rather than seeking advice from a financial planner or stockbroker, a...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has combined its adviser-focused Core Equity Services and Colonial Geared Investments offerings under the single banner of CommSec Adviser Services....

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Superannuation

SMSF appetite for property continues to grow, but the lack of any minimum professional standards for property investment advisers requires serious consideration from the ...

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Financial planning

Specialised financial advice practices will be a thing of the past due to their unsustainable business models, according to Seaview Consulting's Bob Neill....

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Financial planning

With major legislative change set to occur, the role software, technology and new media are playing in financial planning today is unprecedented....

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Tools & guides

Finametrica founder Paul Resnik argues that risk profiling tools are all very well, but it is a financial adviser's ability to use those tools that really matters....

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People & Products

Australian Unity Investments has appointed Kate Hoare as its fourth senior investment executive....

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Financial planning

It’s a common problem confronting financial advisers. Clients that became heavily cashed-up during the GFC are seeking higher yields because term deposit rates have almos...

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Financial planning

An unlicensed Sydney-based financial planner has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Superannuation

Industry experts believe proposed legislation and a new licensing regime will give way to like-for-like cost comparisons between SMSFs, industry and retail superannuation...

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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...

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

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