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Zurich extends its presence in the group life market with the acquisition of IUS Life....

Financial planning

Zurich extends its presence in the group life market with the acquisition of IUS Life....

Editorial

With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...

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Editorial

The Government's Future of Financial Advice proposals may serve to alter the legislative environment but, as Mike Taylor writes, new research suggests much more is requir...

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Policy & Regulation

The key lobby groups making up the financial services industry are hoping to see the first draft of the legislation emanating from the Government’s Future of Financ...

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Editorial

The financial planning industry has ended 2010 amid just as much uncertainty as the beginning of the year, writes Mike Taylor....

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Financial planning

Flooding in south-east Queensland has interrupted the services of several Queensland-based financial services organisations that had earlier offered assistance to those a...

Financial planning

Count Financial is acquiring a strategic 8.25 per cent stake in Professional Investment Services (PIS) parent entity Centrepoint Alliance, according to a Christmas Eve an...

Financial planning

Although it is still early days in terms of the fallout from the Queensland floods, Australia’s financial advisory industry has begun looking into what assistance w...

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Policy & Regulation

Financial planning firm Infocus Money Management has appointed a new chief operating officer to help transition the business to a fee-for-service model before the propose...

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Financial planning

Academic urges development of new tertiary-based minimum standards for financial planners....

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Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has outlined a radical agenda in its attempt to evolve into a professional association but, as Mike Taylor reports, the ultimate transf...

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Financial planning

Notwithstanding the criticisms that have been directed at the FPA and the course it has charted, outgoing FPA chief Julie Berry believes the FPA’s direction has alw...

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Financial planning

The FPA and the FSC now have clearly differentiated seats at the lobbying table, but the FPA chief has acknowledged that advisers and licensees remain inextricably linked...

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Financial planning

Aberdeen’s Stuart James claims benchmarking can leave investors short on handy exposures....

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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