Financial advisers: compliance doesn’t equal good advice
01 July 2003
The Association of Financial Advisers believes the ASIC/ACA financial planners survey earlier this year focused too much on compliance, and the advice given in the survey…
01 July 2003
The Association of Financial Advisers believes the ASIC/ACA financial planners survey earlier this year focused too much on compliance, and the advice given in the survey…
24 June 2003
AMP is putting the life insurance operations of its ailing British operation National Provident Institution into run-off, laying off another 900 staff in the process…
24 June 2003
Trans-Tasman financial services group Tower is the subject of much attention after key shareholders’ attempts to come up with an alternative capital-raising plan to overthrow…
17 June 2003
It’s been a tough few weeks for AMP CEO Andrew Mohl, and it’s not going to get any easier in the immediate future as he sets off around the world to try to sell…
10 June 2003
Financial planners say the high cost of PI premiums are preventing them from doing their job properly…
10 June 2003
Promina’s Royal & SunAlliance Financial Services has changed the name of its Australian and NZ operations to Asteron…
10 June 2003
NZ-based financial services group Tower has hit out at a NZ Shareholders Association suggestion that Tower has given Guinness Peat Group “a cheap-ride into a 30% stake”…
03 June 2003
NIBA has joined with IFSA and the FPA to devise a “plain English” guide for statement of advice completion and a model financial services guide…
03 June 2003
A two-year study into the impact of genetic testing on Australia has been welcomed by life insurers…
27 May 2003
The Federal Government will implement a new superannuation system that focuses on allowing employees to choose their own super fund…
20 May 2003
Still reeling from the negative impacts of the recent consumer/ASIC survey that found too many financial planners with real problems…
20 May 2003
The FPA has also appointed two new staff to look after the needs of its small boutique dealer members, who make up 75% of its membership…
13 May 2003
After a spate of bad press following their disastrous showing in two recent surveys, financial planners have copped it again, with a senior ASIC officer saying most of them…
06 May 2003
The Financial Planning Association has launched an “ambitious” national campaign to raise the bar on Australian planners’ professional standards after the recent disastrous survey…
06 May 2003
Colonial First State CEO John Pearce has joined the IFSA board of directors…
29 April 2003
New Zealand’s 95-year-old Life Insurance Act is finally destined for a makeover…
29 April 2003
St George Bank’s new national television advertising campaign showing a financial planner talking about his “personal” relationship with an elderly client and her family…
23 April 2003
The Investment and Financial Services Association has released a Q&A fact sheet for its members in a bid to create better understanding of the changing face…
23 April 2003
IFSA has released its annual superannuation fees analysis for 2002…
15 April 2003
While the disastrous findings of ASIC’s and ACA’s recent financial planners survey is still bright in everyone’s memories, Ernst & Young has released…