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Financial planning

The annual renewal will lead to unintended consequences which will have negative implications for financial advice practices and flow on effects in terms of extra cost an...

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Financial planning

Only 27 people used the Financial Planning Association’s Wellbeing service last year and the Association of Financial Advisers is also finding a low uptake with its menta...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has directly questioned whether small advice firms are paying more in ASIC levies to pay for the advice misdeeds of banks and other ...

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers should be granted as much leeway as lawyers in providing assistance with insurance claims, according to the Association of Financial Advisers....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to be trusted and empowered to use their professional judgement in circumstances where many are highly educated and have years of experience, acco...

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Financial planning

Advisers would like to deliver more cost-effective limited advice but are being precluded from doing so by regulatory uncertainty and an approach by the regulators and li...

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Financial planning

Will the Government initiate an independent review of the legislation and regulation around financial planning based on the findings of the current Australian Securities ...

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Policy & Regulation

The funding of consumer submissions by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Consumer Advisory Panel warrants greater scrutiny of the regulator and its a...

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Financial planning

The Government is being urged to provide regulatory clarity around the new breach reporting legislation which it is feared will radically increase what are deemed to be r...

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has made at least some concessions to financial advisers with new legislation at least simplifying some elements of fee disclosure while making cle...

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Editorial

The widespread general criticism of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s latest efforts around code of conduct guidance should be the catalyst for the G...

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Financial planning

A wide cross-section of the financial advice industry has delivered a harsh message to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority about the continuing shortcomi...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been accused of simply complicating matters rather than bringing greater clarity to its financial adviser code of...

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People & Products

Michael Nowak will be the new president, with Sam Perera as vice president and Matthew Hawkins as treasurer, with all state directors confirmed as well....

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Features

The two largest financial planning organisations have increasingly been singing from the same hymn book in delivering their policy messages to Canberra but they are still...

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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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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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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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