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Policy & Regulation

Finance compliance and risk roles on the rise: SEEK

SEEK data has shown that the Royal Commission has led to a direct increase in compliance and risk roles being mandated by clients across all sub-segments of the financial...

Financial planning

RC sparks increased appetite for advice: Metlife

Despite the bad press, 38 per cent of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and 20 per cent of advised consumers say the Royal Commission will make them even more likely to ...

Financial planning

Cost and trust the major barriers to advice

While Australians who receive professional financial advice value it highly, new research released by the Association of Financial Advisers has confirmed that cost and th...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC slaps Spectrum Wealth adviser with three-year ban

The regulator has banned Spectrum Wealth Advisers’ Gurumukh Singh Mehra from providing financial services for three years after surveillance showed he failed to act in hi...

Financial planning

Scale key to future advice business, Fortnum says

Advice businesses will find the future increasingly challenging unless they can gain the necessary advantages of scale, according to a new report from Fortnum Private Wea...

Financial planning

Zenith to provide voting guidance to financial advisers

The investment research provider said it will it provide formal recommendations on how financial advisers should vote in the best interests of their clients on investment...

Financial planning

Despite everything planners still most trusted source

New research has delivered good news to financial planners – that they are the most trusted source of financial advice, particularly amongst younger generations, but few ...

Financial planning

Will FASEA rules make intra-fund, scaled advice unviable?

There is real danger that the rules flowing from the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will make the delivery of intra-fund, scaled advice and limited lice...

Financial planning

Is price the key to robo-advice?

Robo-advice still has a future despite recent closures in the UK and elsewhere, but pricing could be the key, according to the experts....

Financial planning

Experts see future for dealership model

Despite the Royal Commission tainting perceptions of the financial services industry, a panel has told Money Management and Super Review’s Future of Wealth Management con...

Financial planning

Keep post-retirement solutions simple

While the financial services industry is a little behind the curve in terms of developments in the post-retirement solution space, keeping things simple and user-friendly...

Financial planning

Planners need “radical transparency”: Investment Trends

Going forward, financial planners must move to a model of radical transparency in order to retain clients and remain relevant....

Financial planning

Are some advice remediation programs flawed?

An academic has questioned the robustness of some bank advice remediation programs claiming some work has been carried out by contractors with little more than ‘hot house...

Expert Analysis

Moving Forward with Client Feedback

Acting on client feedback is vital for planning practices wanting to improve client outcomes and stay relevant in the current period of change facing the industry. Dr Ray...