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Advisers’ attempts to cover all bases could be costing them new clients, with search patterns showing those with specialist offerings have greater pulling power, a planni...
Financial planning
Advisers who left independently-owned licensees in tougher financial times are expected flock back in the name of “unbiased” advice. ...
Financial planning
Financial advisers need to be careful when deciding to treat clients as “sophisticated investors”, senior lawyer at The Fold Legal, Lesley Thorne, warns....
Financial planning
ASIC has permanently banned Southport-based former financial adviser, Grant Patrick Thompson, from providing financial services....
Life/Risk
Advisers must be extremely diligent about ensuring they fulfill their duty of care, as two recent court cases have shown. David Glen runs through the post-FOFA adviser ch...
Life/Risk
In this third of a three-part series on insurance claims, Col Fullagar rounds out the concept of claims management best practice by reviewing the role of analysis, resear...
Financial planning
Almost one in three clients are considering leaving their adviser, with a lack of face-to-face contact often the kiss of death, a survey found. ...
Policy & Regulation
Scaled and scoped advice has received undue focus under the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation, and is a sign of increasing levels of paternalism in legislatio...
Financial planning
Contrary to what some believe, the client owns the client: the client is not owned by the adviser, the dealer group or the broker, as Craig Parker explains. ...
Editorial
Yellow Brick Road has increased its wealth management revenue while also boosting adviser and branch numbers....
Financial planning
Advisers always have a keen eye on the performance of their business, aiming to determine where they should focus their efforts to have the biggest positive impact on the...
Financial planning
Former High Court judge Sir Anthony Mason dismisses suggestions FOFA changes will compromise best interests. ...
Financial planning
Transparency around who is an “aligned” or “non-aligned” adviser deemed vital....
Life/Risk
With professional standards becoming more demanding and clients’ risk insurance expectations rising, it’s time for advisers to adopt a genuinely holistic approach that en...
Financial planning
With the festive season well and truly upon us, now is a good time to examine the obligations of financial advisers in relation to receiving non-monetary (or soft dollar)...
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Podcast
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...