FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

The AFA has moved to the business planning stage of a pro-advice advertising campaign on the back of strong financial support from members....

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Financial planning

Infocus Money Management has launched a client management system that it says will dramatically reduce the cost of providing advice by producing advice documents more qui...

Editorial

Regulators perpetually struggle to create a healthy environment for the provision of financial advice, however, Robert Keavney identifies several areas where they have mi...

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Financial planning

AMP’s Dunn declares the merger with AXA AP will see a company with financial advice at its heart....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a former Gold Coast adviser for 10 years after investigations into the advice she gave relating to investm...

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Financial planning

The introduction of a statutory fiduciary duty for advisers could see the financial services industry return to the agent and broker models of its roots....

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Policy & Regulation

Further research has confirmed concerns around the FOFA changes driving up the cost of advice....

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Financial planning

New research suggests that Australians value advice from friends and family more than that provided by advisers....

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Policy & Regulation

New research reveals the way the banning of commissions and the implementation of FOFA will push up the cost of advice....

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Financial planning

The Future of Financial Advice reforms will see the end of commissions and the introduction of fee-for-service for planners. Mike Taylor hosts a roundtable to discuss wha...

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Financial planning

Centric Wealth has released its own professional standards of best practice, which have received the endorsement of the Financial Planning Association (FPA)....

Financial planning

Industry Super Network chief David Whiteley has sought to proclaim a new accounting standard as a fork in the road for ethical advice....

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Financial planning

Members of the financial services industry regard the proposed reforms package as beneficial, but question its ultimate success, according to the research conducted by RB...

Financial planning

New research confirms that those who have used an adviser trust them and respect their outcomes....

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Financial planning

New research has revealed the extent of the divide between what consumers want to pay for advice and what it really costs....

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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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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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