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The Financial Planning Association will encourage its members to focus more on retirement and post-retirement planning, according to FPA general manager of policy and gov...

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Financial planning

Young investors, those who have only used a financial adviser for a short time and those with minimal investments are the most dissatisfied when it comes to financial adv...

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Financial planning

Money Management has selected its 2011 Financial Planner of the Year and will announce the winner tomorrow at the Financial Planning Association national conference in Br...

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Financial planning

FOFA reforms will mean financial advice groups will either move down the vertical integration path towards a hybrid model or focus purely on the professional advice model...

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Financial planning

A former Perth stockbroker is facing fraud charges totalling $8.8 million, following an 18-month ASIC investigation....

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Superannuation

Accountants handling SMSFs will be able to cover off licensing via arrangement with MLC and AXA....

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Financial planning

The concerns about FOFA held by Australian financial planners have been placed in a global context....

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Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has announced a partnership with AXA and MLC to provide its 22,000 members with a comprehensive financial services package....

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Financial planning

With both tranches of the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation now released, participants in a Money Management roundtable discuss the good, the bad and the ugly ...

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Editorial

The financial planning industry has been undertaking some intense lobbying in recent weeks in the hope of extracting some key amendments to the Government’s Future of Fin...

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Financial planning

Macquarie Private Wealth has bolstered its advice team with the appointment of 19 new advisers across six of its state offices in the past six months....

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Superannuation

The CSSA is concerned that proposed intra-fund financial advice measures could lead to personal advice fees being bundled in with fund administration fees....

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Financial planning

Financial planning executive Neil Younger will make a move to ANZ Wealth next month to head up practice-based financial planning, the banking group has announced....

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Financial planning

The financial services regulator has raised several concerns with respect to financial advice provided at the Australian Financial Services (AFS) Group, and will impose a...

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Financial planning

Cost-effective scaled advice will only be possible if the Government gets the policy and regulatory settings right, according to ANZ general manager for advice and distri...

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