ADVISERS

Financial planning

Structured products are often marketed on the premise that they can help protect an investor’s underlying investment. However, as Lucinda Beaman reports, advisers should ...

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Financial planning

Improving markets and better than average returns see All Star deliver a fee sale aimed at attracting attention....

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Life/Risk

Will bring its products under one platform and introduce online application process....

Financial planning

Will provide software to insurance advisers for a further three years....

Financial planning

Will allow advisers to move underlying shares, managed funds and SMAs automatically between investment platforms....

Editorial

Simple portfolios may make investors feel good but may well fail to deliver or meet expectations, writes Dominic McCormick....

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Financial planning

Will cut fees in some places by half in a bid to boost development of planning practices....

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Financial planning

As the Ripoll Inquiry probes deeper into some of the failures in the financial planning industry, the Association of Financial Advisers has urged greater planner focus on...

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Financial planning

Captstone has conducted a national survey to determine how remuneration changes will impact planning practices within its network....

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Life/Risk

Communication with advisers more important than even a year ago....

Financial planning

The recent round table discussion held by Money Management examined concerns over adviser education levels and their capacity to meet the individual needs of clients....

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Financial planning

Software will automatically generate level premium structure when providing an insurance quote....

Financial planning

Portal will provide information ranging from fund and member details to pension information and financial statements....

Financial planning

ING has argued for the intra-fund advice regime to be extended to financial planners, while also calling for more stringent licensing rules and education standards....

Financial planning

Australian financial advisers believe the worst of the global financial crisis is over, with sentiment having improved rapidly over recent months, according to the latest...

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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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