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Financial planning

Despite calls for financial advisers to be more aligned with other related services providers such as mortgage brokers and accountants, referral relationships will not be...

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Superannuation

A recently finalised court case has given us new and valuable insights into when the Commissioner's discretion to disregard contributions is likely to be exercised. David...

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Superannuation

On the back of changes announced as part of the FOFA guidelines, My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist authority to enable accountants to continue to recomm...

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Accounting

Dealer group My Adviser has announced the launch of a specialist package for accountants, which it claims will go beyond the proposed legislation....

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Editorial

While the industry has given a broad welcome to the limited licensing regime, accountants will need to be subjected to the same scrutiny as financial planners, writes Mik...

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Superannuation

Institute of Chartered Accountants CEO Lee White sees challenges and positives in the new limited licensing regime replacing the accountants' exemption....

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Financial planning

AMP has announced plans to acquire Cavendish Group and set up a new self-managed super fund (SMSF) business unit....

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Accounting

The new limited licensing regime for accountants has received widespread support from the financial services industry....

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Accounting

Two key accounting bodies, CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, have interpreted the Government's conditional licensing regime as a mean...

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Accounting

It may be as late as mid-2013 before the new accountants' advice regime is up and running....

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Accounting

By becoming licensed to provide financial advice, accountants will be able to charge clients for advice they are currently "giving away for free", says head of SMSF Advic...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Opposition has signalled it remains to be convinced about either introducing or supporting legislation which would restrict the use of the terms 'financial pl...

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Superannuation

Industry experts believe proposed legislation and a new licensing regime will give way to like-for-like cost comparisons between SMSFs, industry and retail superannuation...

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Superannuation

The idea that SMSFs tend to be pushed on clients by accountants is more of a perception than a reality, says Institute of Chartered Accountants head of superannuation Liz...

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Accounting

Accountants must start diversifying away from compliance work and into wealth creation and financial services, says Institute of Public Accountants general manager Vicki ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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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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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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