Mike Taylor

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The most senior executives and members of the board have announced a belt-tightening in the face of COVID-19 but the company’s recruitment of new advisers has kept Perpet...

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New analysis from KPMG has confirmed the environment is ripe for industry superannuation funds to fill the advice gap left by the exit of the major banks but there is lit...

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26 March 2020

China-focused portfolio manager, Value Partners, has pointed to the pace at which Chinese companies are normalising their operations in circumstances where the country wa...

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30 May 2019

Disability insurance is continuing to significantly drag on the bottom lines of the major insurers despite goodwill “discrete goodwill write-offs”...

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Financial firms which receive adverse comments on social media such as Twitter will be required to recognise them as legitimate complaints under the Australian Securities...

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11 July 2018

The SMSF Association has confirmed just how common it is for self-managed superannuation fund trustees to maintain low balances in Australian Prudential Regulation Author...

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The Financial Planning Association has told the Royal Commission that grandfathered commission arrangements should be phased out over the next three years....

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AMP Limited has defended grandfathering and has suggested removal of the arrangements would be tantamount to retrospective legislation....

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The Finance Sector Union is arguing that the existing financial services regulatory regime has been found wonting and that the Royal Commission needs to recommend impleme...

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23 January 2018

The Commonwealth Bank has had additional license conditions imposed on Commonwealth Financial Planning and Financial Wisdom and is facing having to compensate the clients...

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

3 weeks ago

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

3 weeks 5 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

5 days 11 hours ago

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

1 day 2 hours ago

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 ...

4 weeks 1 day ago