Benjamin Levy

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17 April 2013

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

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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....

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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 ...

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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...

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

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28 February 2012

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

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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

2 months ago

SuperRatings has shared the median estimated return for balanced superannuation funds for the calendar year 2024, finding the year achieved “strong and consistent positiv...

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Original bidder Bain Capital, which saw its first offer rejected in December, has returned with a revised bid for Insignia Financial....

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The FAAA has secured CSLR-related documents under the FOI process, after an extended four-month wait, which show little analysis was done on how the scheme’s cost would a...

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