FINANCIAL ADVICE REFORMS

Financial planning

Not many financial planners and dealer groups have thought enough about the practical implications of fiduciary duty on the actual advice process and systems, says the ma...

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Financial planning

A new lobby group has pulled together all the anti-planner commission forces: ISN, ACTU, Choice and others....

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Financial planning

The large institutions are keen competitors in the buoyant market for client books, and they are using the same client books to seed new financial planning practices....

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Editorial

Rather that focusing exclusively on the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the Government needs to clear up all the outstanding policy issues in financial services, writ...

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Editorial

When even municipal councils were subjected to multi-million dollar losses through the global financial crisis, Mike Taylor writes that the Government has few options oth...

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Financial planning

Financial planning job numbers jumped 21 per cent in January 2011 compared to January 2010, while they were notably up from seasonal lows in December, according to eJobs ...

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Editorial

With draft legislation resulting from the Future of Financial Advice reforms due out within months, Mike Taylor writes that much more is at stake than how financial plann...

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Financial planning

The underlying product thresholds defining retail and wholesale investments are set to double as the Government canvasses new rules....

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Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has produced a new document reinforcing its approach on annual opt-ins and an expansion of intra-fund advice....

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Financial planning

Financial planners will be closely watching the discussion and debate surrounding the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms....

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Editorial

As the Federal Treasury reaches the final stages of its consultation process around the Future of Financial Advice reforms, the debate has seemed closed to the very peopl...

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Policy & Regulation

Financial planning firm Infocus Money Management has appointed a new chief operating officer to help transition the business to a fee-for-service model before the propose...

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Financial planning

More financial planners may be getting their own Australian Financial Services Licences (AFSLs), but the real debate should be about fulfilling ongoing compliance obligat...

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Financial planning

Greater flexibility and independence, increasing dealer group fees, and concerns around fulfilling a fiduciary duty are some of the reasons why more advisers are applying...

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Financial planning

New generation platform providers have criticised the ‘preferential programs’ initiated by their peers, claiming they have the potential to bias the advice gi...

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