FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

AFA president Jim Taggart has attacked the millions of dollars expended by industry funds in attacking advisers....

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Financial planning

Analysis from Citigroup has highlighted the fact that providers of intra-fund advice will not be immune to cost pressures if the Government’s proposed expansion of ...

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Financial planning

New research reveals low public regard for financial planners as trusted professionals....

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Financial planning

Colonial First State’s phone-based limited advice service is being extended across its financial planning groups....

Policy & Regulation

The FPA and the Association AFA are confident that the industry has the ear of Treasury as the consultation around the Future of Financial Advice reforms has resumed....

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reinforced its support for small licensees and practices by launching the Small Licensee and Practice Principal Conference...

Financial planning

The Industry Super Network has called for the ‘effective’ implementation of the Future of Financial Advice reforms if consumers are to be protected from commi...

Financial planning

Infocus Money Management member firm Pennywise Investments is offering employer-funded financial planning for resource companies in a bid to help them retain skilled work...

Financial planning

While the results of the Federal Election have finally been decided, the future of Labor's proposed changes to financial advice and superannuation remain uncertain. Lucin...

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Financial planning

With the issue of the nation's Government seemingly settled for now, FoFA reforms and Cooper Review recommendations will likely go ahead en masse, according to according ...

Financial planning

Big industry fund Club Plus has set up an in-house financial planning service backed by Mercer....

Financial planning

Industry funds push virtue of intra-fund advice over “limousine service” full advice model....

Superannuation

The Government embraced a modified MySuper as a central element of its election policy but, as Mike Taylor reports, there remain plenty of reasons why the concept should ...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers is pushing ahead with a lobby group aimed at defining the ‘nuances’ of proposed regulatory reforms to the advice industr...

Financial planning

Research firm CoreData has warned changes to adviser remuneration in the UK may see many consumers priced out of the market, with the group identifying a fee ceiling of 1...

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