Almost half of financial advisers have no confidence at all in ASIC’s ability to monitor and prevent malpractice and financial product collapses, and almost two thirds disagree that payments from product manufacturers to financial advisers should be ceased.
Four out of five respondents (79.4%) feel advisers are being …
2010 is shaping up as a busy year of insurance activity with more than one in two advisers in this year’s CoreData Risk Study anticipating an increase in the amount of risk they write – with one in five of the more than 800 participants expecting to boost …
Australia, despite the best efforts of a determined cadre of Catholics from Sydney’s elegant and leafy North Shore, is yet to have a saint; the closest we have so far managed is the beatification of Mary McKillop.
The steps to sainthood are pretty clear, but primary among them …
The bad news from Dubai could, according to various commentators, be the trigger for a double-dip recession or the start of an emerging market credit crunch.
The six month halt to debt repayments called by state-owned Dubai World also shows again the nature of the relationship between governments …
It’s strange how big banks endeavour to portray a single and caring public image, yet frequently come across as multi-headed beasts.
On Tuesday this week Westpac representatives took to Sydney streets en masse to promote the bank’s new ‘Bringing Back the Bank Manager’ campaign only for the group to shoot …
There’s always a danger when a parliamentary committee undertakes to review an industry that the result will play out a little like New Years Eve – a whole lot of hype followed by inevitable disappointment.
True to form, the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s inquiry into financial …
