ADVISERS

Financial planning

Financial advisers worried about the incoming education reforms could restructure their business to become money coaches. ...

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Financial planning

Only 16.8 per cent of wealth management product holders obtained their fund from a professional adviser, according to new results from Roy Morgan. ...

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People & Products

Almost six months after BT Financial Group revamped its pricing structure for BT Panorama, the company has announced that the platform has reached $13 billion in funds un...

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Financial planning

HUB24 has announced a new partnership with stockbroking and wealth management firm, Patersons Securities....

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has confirmed that the final exam introduced as part of its education reforms would be one exam for all advisers rega...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has sought to calm advisers nervous about FASEA’s reforms at its Professionals Congress this morning, promising that “we will help you ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has sought to put flesh on the bones of its new regime by releasing the relevant provider degrees, qualifications and...

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Financial planning

While annual reviews with financial advisers are the key to client and business success, only half of advisers are actually conducting them....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have named their top three challenges and it’s no surprise education reforms are in the top spot. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has told the Royal Commission that advisers undertake a significant amount of work for clients, justifying their commission payments....

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Financial planning

ANZ has locked in the timetable for transferring its superannuation customers to IOOF even though it traverses the problematic Christmas/New Year period....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made clear it believes product manufacturers should not seek to dictate to advisers under new financial product d...

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Financial planning

Advisers are snubbing their service providers in pursuit of a self-licensed or boutique model, data from Investment Trends shows. ...

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Financial planning

Experts say the continuing uncertainty and fear surrounding the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s future requirements has adviser sentiment unsurprisingl...

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Policy & Regulation

The Law Council of Australia has urged the Government that it needs to amend proposed new financial product design and distribution laws to exclude intervention in produc...

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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...

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

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

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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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