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Financial planning

Dealer Management Systems (DMS) has received a major boost with Count Financial signing up for its commission processing system....

Financial planning

Nothing much has changed in the platform market during the past 12 months. The bigger platforms have got bigger, and there has been some rationalisation at the bottom end...

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning will be the first dealer group to pilot a new, online client management solution for financial advisers....

Financial planning

Focussing on providing services to the adviser and not the licence holder will be the major focus for the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) in 2006, says president ...

Financial planning

There has been much discussion about the lack of life insurance being taken out by the Australian public. But this pales into almost insignificance when the focus is on r...

Financial planning

The usual ambition of a paraplanner is to become an adviser and Kate Cramsie is no exception....

Financial planning

The launch of the Generic Personal Statement (GPS) for risk advisers and their clients has generated some debate, which I think warrants some commentary....

Financial planning

A potential disadvantage of outsourcing paraplanning is that advisers can come to rely so much on the services of a paraplanning firm, that they abdicate their profession...

Financial planning

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Life/Risk

It is a problem that everybody knows about, and some have solutions for, yet it will not go away. Australians are not buying risk insurance, and far too-few advisers are ...

Financial planning

Positive investor sentiment towards advisers has increased over the past 12 months, accompanied by a marked improvement in sentiment toward managed investments, according...

Financial planning

If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...

Financial planning

For Australia’s biggest financial planning dealer groups, managing conflicts is all about ensuring advisers have adequate choice....

Financial planning

Nothing much has changed on Money Management’s list of Top 50 Distributors during the space of the last 12 months....

Financial planning

The evolution of financial planning systems has taken various forms, as the complexity of advisers’ business practices grows. Traditionally, there has been the front-end ...

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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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