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Financial planning

Individual submissions to the Quality of Advice Review have found financial advisers around the country are in dispute as to whether financial technology could help to re...

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Financial planning

An executive with major consultancy Deloitte has revealed that at least two of the major banks have been scoping out opportunities to return to the financial planning are...

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Financial planning

Superannuation legislation, product development, and governance and technology will have a huge impact on the personal investments market, according to Rice Warner....

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Superannuation

Deloitte has acquired leading independent actuarial consultancy, Rice Warner....

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Financial planning

If doctors could accommodate the existence of paramedics, why can’t the financial advice profession accept a similar situation with respect to some lesser qualified advis...

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Financial planning

A panel has agreed that a hybrid advice model is needed to close the advice gap but the digital side needs to be trusted by the consumer and holding them account to what ...

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SMSF

Individuals who have decided to set up their own self-managed super funds are motivated by far more than costs or investment returns, with a desire for control over their...

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Superannuation

Self-managed superannuation funds have become more competitive with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority regulated funds over the past seven years but having a soli...

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Superannuation

A Rice Warner report, to be launched later this month, will look at when self-managed superannuation funds are most cost-effective....

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Financial planning

Providing simple financial advice should not need best interest duty as the amount of risk a consumer would take is low and unlikely to be against their interests, accord...

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Financial planning

The Government wants financial advice to be made more affordable and a Financial Services Council has canvassed easier scaled advice, technology and less red tape as bein...

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Superannuation

Leading actuarial research house, Rice Warner, has called for delaying the next superannuation guarantee rise rather than abandoning it altogether. ...

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds need to carefully think through what they are telling consumers in terms of target returns in circumstances where the COVID-19 pandemic has changed t...

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Financial planning

Lower superannuation fund returns over the long term may see financial planners forced to change their traditional advice model around superannuation, particularly for th...

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Superannuation

Superannuation industry executives have acknowledged the potential for funds to run into liquidity issues because of the downturn and risk to jobs in the travel, hospital...

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