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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified another former Commercial Nominees of Australia Ltd (CNAL) director from acting as a responsible of...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will be undertaking a significant review of AMP’s proposal to de-merge its operations in Australia and the UK prior ...

Financial planning

Jason Menzies answers your questions in depth....

Financial planning

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ruling permanently banning an investment adviser from acti...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has placed extra conditions on the securities dealers’ licences of Permanent Trustee Company and Permanent Inv...

Financial planning

The Count Financial Group is set to launch an superannuation trustee administration platform in conjunction with Trust, the group created out of the merger between Perman...

Financial planning

The Perpetual group has expanded its operations with the trustee side of the business launching a new operation while the investment business has rolled out a new geared ...

Financial planning

Shortly after Bendigo Bank opened its first community branch in 1998, the bank decided it needed a financial planning arm to complement the range of services on offer. No...

Financial planning

Investment manager Invesco will transfer its Approved Deposit Funds (ADFs) into SMF Funds Management’s master trust The Spectrum Plan, providing SMF with over 1,100 new m...

Financial planning

Binding death nominations virtually eliminate the need for trustees to make decisions in relation to death benefits, but they are not without their complications. Kathryn...

Financial planning

A Queensland based financial planner has lodged an official complaint with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) alleging the MLC owned Flexiplan master t...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has disqualified two former directors of Commercial Nominees of Australia (CNAL) from acting as responsible officers...

Financial planning

Peter Hogan answers the questions that flummoxed advisers last year....

Financial planning

Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has begun the new year with a spate of actions against individual financial advisers....

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