ADVISERS

People & Products

Former Future Fund boss, Mark Burgess has joined the HESTA board and will head the new investment committee....

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Financial planning

While the financial advice industry was largely on the path to professionalism and efficiency, background checks when hiring new advisers need to be more robust, ASIC sai...

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Financial planning

Trusted advisers may help connect their clients to philanthropy, according to DSS study....

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Superannuation

There has been a tendency across the advice industry to use a cookie cutter model and this will need to be expanded to service the needs of SMSF trustees, according to a ...

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Financial planning

The AFA has voiced concerns ASIC’s industry funding model would pass costs aimed to remediate poor advisers on to all advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

Consumer group Choice wants all grandfathered commission arrangements to end and for advisers to be required to declare their status – independent or aligned....

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Financial planning

ANZ has confirmed that financial advisers reduce the number of complaints around life insurance at claims time....

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Financial planning

Ignition Wealth has announced the launch of a new division to assist advisers with the addition of robo services to their businesses....

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Life/Risk

Insurance advisers would like banking staff to be trained more on their products and more technology to be implemented for efficiency, according to Adviser Ratings....

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Life/Risk

YTML has this week announced a strategic partnership with risk specialist technology firm, Omnium, to deliver new offerings for advisers in the life insurance space....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s regulatory guidance on managed accounts as well as enhanced features should see an uptick in adviser take-up of the platform, according to Tria Investment Partners...

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Life/Risk

Parliamentarians need to understand that the major life insurers, not advisers, set and control the dynamics of the life insurance industry, according to the AIOFP....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has recommended that certain types of advisers should be covered by whistle-blower protections. ...

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Financial planning

The financial advice market is at an inflection point of various underlying business models within Australia’s licensee brands, according to Fitzpatricks Private Wealth....

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Financial planning

Colonial First State’s record of advice (RoA) enhancements has helped drive a 10 per cent jump in adviser usage....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 2 days ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks 1 day ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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