ADVISERS

Life/Risk

The Financial Services Reform Act has changed the world of risk insurance, but as Ross Kelly writes, opinion is divided on whether the task has become harder for advisers...

Financial planning

Risk insurance group PrefSure Life will cut its ties with up to 1500 financial planners choosing instead to focus on a core group of 45 advisers, saving $3 million in exp...

Financial planning

A breakaway dealer group has achieved success through hands-on adviser involvement. Kate Kachor reports....

Financial planning

Professional Investment Services shareholders will decide on whether to publicly float the group at its annual general meeting in October with strong profit growth this y...

Financial planning

The Parlimentary Secretary to the Treasurer Ross Cameron has ordered an investigation into adviser access to client files and remuneration after Brisbane based advisory g...

Financial planning

ANZ Financial Planning is rolling a further 10 to 20 per cent of its advisers over to a fee for service remuneration model adding to the initial 10 per cent who made the ...

Financial planning

The role of the business development manager (BDM) is one that has seen significant change over the past five years. BDMs were once regarded as those shiny, happy people ...

Financial planning

This year will see the FSRA come into force in financial planning practices everywhere, but what else is on the agenda? JULIE BENNETT reports....

Financial planning

TONY STEPHENS looks at how to increase business through client referrals…but it might not be painless, he warns....

Financial planning

Institutionally-owned financial planning groups still dominate the list of fastest growing dealer groups, taking eight out of the top 10 places on the list. But while the...

Financial planning

The drop in the number of advisers at Mawson Securities was a deliberate controlled move, chairman Peter Johnson says....

Financial planning

Work undertaken in recent years is paying off for Commonwealth Financial Planning, says executive general manager Brett Himbury, with the bank-based group topping this ye...

Financial planning

Investors are sitting on the fence in terms of market sentiment with the latest survey of advisers and investors released by the Australian Investors Association indicati...

Financial planning

Post-retirement investors are seeking higher yielding products and strategies to better manage allocated pensions during both growth and bear markets, according to a poll...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has put institutions with aligned advisers on notice after a recent surveillance project found that commission...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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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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