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Financial planning

Former clients of WealthSure authorised representative, Colin Oberg, have secured a Federal Court ruling ordering the firm to pay $865,000 in compensation....

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Superannuation

While setting up with an individual trustee in an SMSF may be a cheaper option, it eventually creates a false economy, Holley Nethercote argues....

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers have been blamed alongside lawyers for pushing the multitude of claims which placed pressure on TPD products within superannuation funds....

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Funds management

Australian fund managers developing products for the SIV market would need to cater their products to suit their low appetite for risk in their investments....

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Financial planning

A life/risk adviser has been banned for four years by ASIC who acted on information provided by his licensee, Risk Advice Specialists, which has ceased to trade....

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Financial planning

Financial services laws need to catch up with technological developments like peer-to-peer lending to avoid expensive and cumbersome applications of the provisions, a law...

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

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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

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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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