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Financial planning

The corporate regulator has worked through the Christmas and New Year period, having made a number of key announcements during the three weeks....

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People & Products

Madison Financial Group has appointed former Infocus Wealth Management head of business development/practice management Giulio Russo as general manager....

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People & Products

Centrepoint Alliance makes further changes to executive line-up, naming new CFO and company secretary....

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Superannuation

Industry fund chairman expresses concern that improper advice is driving member departures to SMSFs. ...

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Financial planning

AQR Capital Management has welcomed the fact that two of the key ratings houses have awarded its Wholesale Managed Futures Fund a 'recommended' rating. ...

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People & Products

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed Challenger managing director and chief executive Brian Benari to the board....

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Financial planning

The Future of Financial Advice regime is slowly settling down. Well, perhaps. With the recent election of a Coalition Government, all bets could be off the table, as Geor...

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Superannuation

As SMSF regulatory reform puts the spotlight on the relationship between accountants and financial advisers, David Clatworthy looks at how the relationship may evolve in ...

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People & Products

Australasian Wealth Investments (AWI) has appointed former head of UBS Global Asset Management, Ben Heap, as chief executive and managing director....

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Financial planning

Perpetual boss Geoff Lloyd said the group had restructured its advice business to position it well for the anticipated return to full advice and equities....

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Editorial

Yellow Brick Road’s wealth management division has posted a huge jump in revenue, although the group’s overall result was a loss of $6.6 million....

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Rate the raters

If a product receives a glowing review by a research house and subsequently fails, should the research house be partly responsible? The Parliamentary Joint Committee rece...

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Superannuation

SMSF administration platform provider, Xpress Super has added a direct property option to its offering. ...

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Financial planning

ASIC’s successful appeal against the $82.5 million settlement between former Storm Financial investors and Macquarie Bank is a “serious blow to direct consumer action”, a...

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Financial planning

The Federal Court has deemed unfair the $82.5 million settlement between Storm Financial investors and Macquarie Bank. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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