Benjamin Levy

Benjamin Levy

News by this author

17 April 2013

Super funds warned to more closely monitor intrafund advice outsourced to planning firms....

image
17 April 2013

A financial adviser has been battling with TAL for more than two years over the commission arrangements surrounding one of his clients....

image

Financial advisers have echoed concerns by the Australian Lawyers Alliance that super tax changes will impact those who are catastrophically disabled, calling on the FPA ...

image
27 March 2013

With dealer groups across the industry struggling to retain planners, commentators are urging them to adopt the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system to get a better understand...

image

Australian Unity will seek to use current disenchantment with the major banks to push its Big Sky Building Society....

image
28 February 2012

ASIC warned that seeking to revisit a ban on direct payments from fund managers to research providers would be counter-productive....

image
18 January 2012

In a bid to boost demand for its margin lending services, National Australian Bank (NAB) will launch a margin loan product for SMSF investors next month. ...

image
7 December 2011

Three industry executives have launched a networking site for investment professionals in an attempt to end opaque and unscrupulous behaviour surrounding investment recom...

image
1 December 2011

Industry executives have raised the prospect of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) investigating whether responsible entity companies (REs) will b...

image
17 November 2011

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has raised concerns about Treasury's admission that its failure to conduct a regulatory impact analysis on the Future of Financia...

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

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

3 weeks 3 days ago

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

4 weeks 1 day 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. ...

1 week 2 days 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. ...

4 days 18 hours ago

Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

3 days 22 hours ago