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The FPA has written to the Government seeking clarity around grandfathering and urging a tax deduction for the provision of initial advice....

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Financial planning

Six women have been named finalists for the third annual Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) and TAL AFA Female Excellence and Advice Award. ...

Financial planning

The major planning organisations are already gearing up to meet with the new Abbott Government ministers....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced the finalists of its 2013 AFA Adviser of the Year Award....

Financial planning

The FOFA fee disclosure requirements seem to have confused as many clients as they have informed....

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Financial planning

For those advisers aspiring to greater things, two recent pieces of research may contain the insights they need to drive their business further, according to Zurich’s Ric...

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Editorial

Just days will separate two key conferences aimed at financial planners and advisers next month, but Mike Taylor writes that success or failure will not be judged solely ...

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Financial planning

The major planning organisations expect the newly-elected Coalition Government to deliver on the promised changes to FOFA....

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Financial planning

The Fold Legal launches three new online learning modules in its Financial Advice Series....

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Life/Risk

Australian consumers are more engaged with life insurance than ever before, which could be the cause of increased lapse rates, according to chief executive officer of TAL...

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Editorial

While a recent Money Management/Association of Financial Advisers thought leadership breakfast traversed the manner in which FOFA has accelerated the penetration of techn...

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Financial planning

Education provider confident licensees can choose quality training without regulator oversight....

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Financial planning

A technical issue which prompted AFS Group not to establish a trust account via which it could remunerate authorised representatives has ended up denying those planners t...

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Financial planning

Challenger is counting on the incumbent Government to swiftly change regulation around a particular type of annuity product and clear the way for its launch in Australia....

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Financial planning

Synchron’s John Prossor claims a repeat of the AFS brokerage losses can be avoided by paying advisers without delay....

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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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