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FPA to provide PI insurance to members

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is calling for submissions to provide group indemnity insurance for its members by June this year. Jo-Anne Bloch, FPA chief executive, said prior to this action, planners would either find their own indemnity ...

MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Homegrown private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the ...

Liquidnet rakes $200m off starting blocks

Liquidnet, the global agency broker that's just launched in Australia, has said members have traded $200 million in equities using the group's block matching system. The group allows institutional investors to trade large blocks of equities directly ...

Regulators fight breaches online

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a new online breach reporting system for dual-regulated institutions. According to a joint statement released by both ...

Seeking six figures online

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
A new recruitment website that links high income job seeking-hopefuls directly with employers is due to be launched next week, hoping to change the face of the high-end employment scene. Six Figures ( www.sixfigures.com.au ) is the brainchild of HR ...

AFS ready for IPO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has flagged plans to list on the stock exchange after meeting its business and profit objectives last year. "Our energies over the past four years have been devoted to consolidating AFS' position in the marketplace ...

Fraudulent advisers caught

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
Two Sydney men have been charged and found guilty by the Australian Securities and Investment Commissions (ASIC) for a combined 11 charges of fraud and delivering false financial advice. The two so called "advisers", Tunde Doja from Sydney and Mohammad ...

AFS paraplanning gets thumbs up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
Graduates from the Australian Financial Services' (AFS) Paraplanning Academy have hailed the program as a success. The academy involves recruits to complete a six-week program with the initial two weeks spent working in structured classroom activities ...

Futures contracts director caught without AFSL

ASIC has taken a court order against a Tasmanian-based company and director for providing financial training in futures contracts without the proper financial licence. The Federal Court of Australia, in Melbourne, made interim orders restraining Oxford ...

Aussie IT joins FinTech 100

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Bravura Solutions features as the only Australian financial services technology provider to rank in this year's FinTech 100. The Financial Insights and American Banker magazine, FinTech 100, determines its rankings from each companies year-end revenues ...