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Financial planning

John Hewison believes the financial planning industry cannot move much forward until the link between product and advice is broken....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned an authorised representative of WealthSure from providing financial services for five years....

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Financial planning

New research suggests financial planners have once again cut the amount charged for advice in a bid to maintain or increase business profitability....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC signals it will apply the same rules to both scaled and holistic advice....

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Financial planning

Most direct investors want advice but they are unclear on adviser's value propositions, CoreData has found....

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Superannuation

New report advocates tailoring SMSF advice to generational needs....

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Top 100

Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....

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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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People & Products

In an effort to drive its growth strategy, Guardian Advice has expanded its senior managerial team with the appointments of John Gray, Patrick Casey and Richard Johnson....

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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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Financial planning

Finding a good adviser is 'almost a matter of chance' according to Vanguard head of corporate affairs and market development Robin Bowerman....

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Financial planning

Clients respect financial advisers who keep their expectations realistic in the face of market gyrations....

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Tools & guides

The option of using a record of advice has been available to financial advisers for a number of years. Samantha Hills clears confusion as to why planners would use one, w...

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Financial planning

The amount Australians are prepared to pay for financial advice has slipped over the past year, with the gap between expected and actual cost of advice widening....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers must develop a more complex toolset to provide advice, according to senior Milliman consultants who criticised the simplistic advice models being used ...

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