ADVICE

Financial planning

Greater regulatory clarity is needed to ensure superannuation funds can fill the gap between comprehensive advice which should sit outside of super funds in most instance...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have an opportunity to create value by taking more responsibility in the investing process and lowering costs at the same time, according to Financial ...

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Financial planning

The use of technology has given 28% of financial advice businesses a leg up when it comes to improving the affordability of advice, according to a report. ...

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Financial planning

There is a strong likelihood that complaints regarding inappropriate advice will be resolved by agreement rather than a decision against the advisers, according to the Au...

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Financial planning

Clime Investment Management has reported a net profit after tax of $2.2 million, a rise of 473% on the previous year, while the acquisition of Madison has helped it see a...

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Funds management

There is an extra $124 billion sitting in cash in banks since the pandemic and advisers have a job to do to encourage investors to put this back into markets....

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Financial planning

AMP’s new service model will allow the release of institutional ownership and will cease buyback arrangements, but advisers have until the end of the year to leave the ne...

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Financial planning

Trustees should come up with an approach that allows them to have necessary comfort that the quality of advice that is provided to members is as it should be, according t...

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Life/Risk

Only one-third of surveyed consumers believe an advised life insurance product is better quality than an unadvised product, according to MetLife....

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Financial planning

COVID-19 has driven the awareness of the importance of professional advice by 54% in the past 12 months, according to ClearView....

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Financial planning

The biggest challenge facing the advice industry is getting out of the ‘siege mentality’ brought on by reforms and failing to look towards growth, an advisory firm believ...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s consultation found that limited advice is too costly to provide and there is a lack of demand for digital advice....

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Financial planning

The big four bank will remediate customers of its financial advice business for failure to notify them of corporate actions between 2005 to 2019....

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Financial planning

Investors are likely to need guidance from an adviser on balancing risks if they want to achieve a desired 13% annual return in post COVID-19 markets, according to Natixi...

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Financial planning

There will be more advice practices popping up to service clients that only want once-off advice and those practices need to invest in technology to lower the cost of adv...

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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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