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Life/Risk

TAL has launched an education course to help advisers better understand the category that represents the largest claims category, cancer....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is probing the quality of advice provided around self managed superannuation funds, including with r...

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Features

Sherise Mercer explores what wealth firms need to consider to evolve their focus on the client experience, their operating model, and staff development to retain and grow...

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Financial planning

Mortgages should be deemed financial products under the Corporations Act requiring the provision of licensed advice, according to actuarial consultancy, Rice Warner....

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Tech

Women engaged with their super online an average of six times during the June quarter and executed an SOA 30 per cent of the time, according to Decimal....

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Financial planning

Centerpoint has posted a 51 per cent growth in NPAT thanks to a strong growth of its wealth business....

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Life/Risk

ANZ has today announced the release of its new income secure essentials and severity trauma insurance covers....

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Features

It is time for planners to bring aged care advice into sharper focus and initiate conversations with their clients around cost, structures, and implications for other are...

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Financial planning

The CBA has thus far paid over $29 million in compensation for its customers who received poor advice from CFP or Financial Wisdom between 2003 and 2012....

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Financial planning

Accounting firm, RSM Australia has released research confirming small to medium business owners will need professional advice to enable a comfortable retirement....

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Financial planning

Advice practices that implement the new professional and ethical standards and improve financial advice standards could eventually have to pay less levy to fund ASIC. ...

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Superannuation

Australian technology provider Midwinter Financial Services would leverage superannuation gamification to develop a consumer facing calculator....

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Features

While advisers need to strategise around the myriad of superannuation changes tabled in the 2016 Federal Budget, they should not implement changes just for the sake of it...

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Financial planning

Successful advice businesses are built on genuine concern for people, Mentor Education believes....

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People & Products

Fiducian Group has continued to implement its strategy with the acquisition of another financial planning practice....

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