RISK MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled the licence of a margin foreign exchange business for making frequent changes to one of its user platforms, but failing to document them. ...

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Financial planning

Advice identified as critical element in the successful development of guaranteed products....

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Financial planning

With Baby Boomers closing in on retirement, the financial advice industry needs to shift its focus from accumulation to draw down, according to Lonsec Research....

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Financial planning

International regulators need to collaborate to minimise inconsistencies in risk mitigation requirements for cross-border non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives, according...

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Financial planning

Planners should lift their knowledge about compliance and risk management issues as this area is often overlooked by research houses and is not actively overseen by regul...

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Financial planning

Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre has appointed Peter Vann to develop a funds and wealth management stream....

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Financial planning

Private clients of Melbourne-based boutique advisory firm, Giles Wade, will gain access to a wider range of offshore investment options through a partnership with Bonhote...

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Superannuation

APRA will wait and see what finally emerges from the unions Royal Commission before acting with respect to allegations confronting Cbus....

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Superannuation

The FSI final report’s recommendation that superannuation fund trustees be required to provide longevity protection represents a “retirement revolution”, according to Cha...

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People & Products

Magellan Financial Group has announced it has appointed Dr Brett Cairns as executive chairman, effective 1 January 2015....

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Funds management

Retirees are trapped between low yielding cash and bonds and higher yielding equity markets that on average suffer 30 per cent drops with the funds management industry st...

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Financial planning

As risk planning remains a hot topic in the financial advice space, Malavika Santhebennur explores the top 10 legal quandaries planners can find themselves in and how to ...

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Financial planning

TAL completes rationalisation of super funds with appointment of three independnet trustees....

Funds management

Recent regulatory change has seen the role of custodians evolve into the risk management space, as superannuation clients struggle to keep up with their increased reporti...

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Financial planning

Two boutique non-aligned planning firms have joined Countplus subsidiary Total Financial Solutions (TFS) claiming they were attracted by its ‘independent’ culture and und...

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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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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