ADVICE

Financial planning

YBR founder, Mark Bouris, claims the unmet demand for advice won’t be achieved via the traditional, holistic advice model....

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Life/Risk

A new report on general insurance disclosure reveals a desire to steer clear of the personal advice regime and a push to get ASIC relief to do so. ...

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Financial planning

Despite the rapid rise of digital/robo advice, face-to-face advice will continue to dominate, according to research by Comparator Business Benchmarking....

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Financial planning

MLC has internally appointed Vanessa Rowe as general manager of MLC Direct to help with seamless end-to-end advice....

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Superannuation

Super fund executives have been told good financial advice trumps investment management in delivering adequate retirement incomes....

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Financial planning

NAB’s remediation scheme must be fair and equitable, if it is to work to restore trust in the financial advice sector, Slater and Gordon believes....

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Financial planning

NAB Wealth has confirmed it is writing letters to clients it believes may have received inappropriate advice....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government’s FSI response has delivered on higher educational standards for planners together with enshrinement of the term “financial planner/adviser”....

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Life/Risk

Hybrid commissions may remove perceptions of bias in adviser recommendations, but it will not boost advice quality, the FPA argues....

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Financial planning

Accountants are being offered a licensing solution that will enable them to continue to provide SMSF advice without the loss of client control....

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Superannuation

New superannuation report makes clear that while advice is central to super, conflicts of interest must be disclosed....

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Financial planning

Risk advice specialist, MediBroker, has joined the Bombora Advice group as a principal practice....

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Financial planning

An oversupply of buyers and an undersupply of advice practices could lead buyers into making the wrong purchase, Paul Tynan warned....

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Financial planning

A new investor-centric platform will enable advisers to get a clearer picture of clients’ investments, OneVue chief executive, Connie Mckeage said....

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Life/Risk

The Queensland Local Government Superannuation Board has been ordered to disclose advice it received in relation to a TPD claim by a former Gold Coast City Council employ...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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