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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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