FINANCIAL ADVICE INDUSTRY

Financial planning

The financial advice industry is mourning the loss of Synchron founder and director Paul Riegelhuth, who died late last week after an accident at his home on Sunday 28 Ap...

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Editorial

Legal experts Samantha Hills and Grant Holley dissect the best interests duty and the obligations that come with it....

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Financial planning

Colonial First State has relaunched its regulatory reforms website for financial advisers to cope with post-FOFA environment. ...

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Financial planning

Due to conflicts surrounding the link between product and advice, large parents of financial planning groups should use monitoring mechanisms to ensure the advice provide...

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Financial planning

AFA has launched a new initiative to “connect and support” females across the financial advice industry....

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Financial planning

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched a new product – a Global Managed Volatility Alpha strategy....

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Financial planning

AMP Horizons has made changes to its advice processes after they were found wanting by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

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Financial planning

Some financial advisers who regarded ETF growth as merely cyclical and not structural are starting to change their position, according to a report published by ETF Consul...

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Life/Risk

ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell told Money Management there was enough life policy churning in the financial advice industry for the regulator to be concerned about the issu...

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Financial planning

The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....

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Financial planning

Sonnie Bailey explores some of the sources of regulation which extend beyond what financial planners may think of as ‘regulation’, in the narrow sense of the term....

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Financial planning

The advice industry needs to work out the best way it can adapt to an increase in online participation by consumers....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has warned against going too far to address churn when it is not systemic, and only a few advisers are guilty....

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Financial planning

ASIC will soon hold discussions with the financial planning industry about the potential for setting up a self-regulatory organisation which would develop and administer ...

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Financial planning

ANZ's Paul Barrett says educating consumers is the key to growing adviser credibility....

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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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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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