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Accounting

A Melbourne based accountant has pleaded guilty to ordering the redeeming of su-perannuation money on behalf of clients who had not qualified for retirement....

Superannuation

The growth in self managed superannuation has grown in recent months as the result of changes in legislation. Ben Smythe investigates what advisers should be telling clie...

Financial planning

Tower Trust has released a new do-it-yourself (DIY) complying pension on the market to sit alongside its existing range of DIY superannuation products....

Financial planning

Tower financial group has acquired master trust and financial planning group Bridges for $168 million, in a move to boost its Australian retail financial services positio...

Superannuation

<B>The new adviser </B>For a number of years, self managed super funds (SMSF) have been considered part-time work for many financial planning professionals across Austral...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will appoint a statutory approved trustees (SAT) to thousands of DIY super funds as new regulations come into force....

Financial planning

Australia's first listed accountancy and financial services group Harts Australasia has purchased leading trustee and portfolio management group Cardinal Financial Securi...

Editorial

Perpetual Trustees today announced it had posted a net profit of $40 million for the past financial year, up 31 per cent on the previous year....

Financial planning

An administrator has been appointed to the Victorian Soho Lemon Management scheme. Director Peter Russell-Clarke says he requested an administrator be appointed to protec...

Financial planning

The Strategist Group recently sat down and documented more than 100 different strategies that financial planners may implement when dealing with clients that have put in ...

Financial planning

Close to ten per cent of all small superannuation funds failed to make the choice to become either a Self-Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) or a Small APRA Fund (SAF) by...

Financial planning

Solomon Smith Barney Asset Management Australia have steered away from giving adding an advice model to its new portable superannuation plan....

Financial planning

BT Portfolio Services has more than tripled the size of its wrap service over the past year, raising funds under administration to $1.7 billion....

Financial planning

Rationalisation of the trustee industry has started, with IOOF selling its operation to TowerTrust for an undisclosed sum....

Financial planning

Tower Trust is to remain based in Adelaide, following the acquisition of IOOF’s trust business yesterday....

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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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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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