MONEY MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

The Chief Ombudsman has sought to refute claims that FOS is unaccountable and in urgent need of review....

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Financial planning

Charter Financial Planning and Dover Financial Advisers have been named Dealer Groups of the Year based on data gathered as part of the Money Management Top 100 Dealer Gr...

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Financial planning

Overall planner numbers have fallen for the fourth consecutive year with the non-institutionally owned sector losing more than 10 per cent in 12 months...

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Financial planning

Premium Wealth Management has confirmed its shareholders are considering an approach from Australian Unity....

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Financial planning

Perpetual Private Clients has the most valuable planners according to data collected as part of the upcoming Money Management Top 100 Dealer Group survey....

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Financial Advisers has thanked the Palmer United Party “for its proactive action” in voting down a move to disallow the Government’s FOFA reforms....

Policy & Regulation

Senior Treasury officials deny the Treasury has endorsed ISA-sponsored Rice Warner research on FOFA implications....

Policy & Regulation

The FPA has urged the calling of a national summit to resolve the issues raised in the 61 recommendations of the Senate Committee report....

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Financial planning

Merging banking and financial services recruiters, Profusion Group and Primary Asset Consulting (PAC) will ensure businesses within the sector have access to essential da...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry lobbyists are giving the Federal Government’s decision to plough ahead with the implementation of some elements of the Future of Financial Advice reforms a mixed...

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned Southport-based former financial adviser, Grant Patrick Thompson, from providing financial services....

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Financial planning

CommFP counters claims by ASIC that it was not informed of key elements of client compensation arrangements...

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Financial planning

One of Fidante Partners’ boutique fund managers is set to disband after more than eight years in the market, Money Management understands. ...

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Funds management

Paying equal attention to the four major asset classes has been a winning strategy for the AQR Managed Futures Fund. ...

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Financial planning

AMP's first wave of 46 job losses appears to be just the start of staged plans to substantially reduce staffing numbers across the business, the Finance Sector Union (FSU...

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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 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week 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 3 days ago

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

2 weeks 2 days ago

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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