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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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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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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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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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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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months 3 weeks ago

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

4 months 4 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

1 week 4 days ago

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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