FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

Planners must adopt more complicated technology and a systematic approach to client needs....

Financial planning

Many clients didn't even know they were Storm clients, according to FIA chief executive Spiro Paule....

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Editorial

It is often the commissions versus fees issue that overwhelms discussions about the appropriateness of the title 'profession' when applied to financial advice. ...

Financial planning

Dealer group Millennium3 points to the role of accountants in giving bad advice relating to recent corporate collapses....

Editorial

Regulators must infuse personal integrity into provision of financial advice....

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Financial planning

What becomes relevant information for financial advice is being influenced by data collector expertise....

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Financial planning

Submission to the joint parliamentary inquiry claims the buyer of last resort policy is biased towards product providers....

Financial planning

The VOA awards are designed to promote and define the value of professional advice....

Financial planning

Plan B suggests the financial services industry may need two sets of standards....

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Editorial

Dispensations granted to superannuation funds with respect to intra-fund advice are what many had hoped for but they carry the risk of reputational damage if things go wr...

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Financial planning

A Sydney financial planner who has worked with former clients of Storm Financial in recent months has pointed to an aggressive sales culture within the failed group, incl...

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Financial planning

A dispute resolution process between Storm clients and the Commonwealth Bank has been put in place in order to avoid a lengthy litigation process....

Financial planning

The degree to which superannuation funds comply with the regulatory constraints surrounding the new intra-fund advice regime will rely on how closely they are watched by ...

Financial planning

Guardian Financial Planning head Steve Browning claims intra-fund advice should be termed 'informed guidance' rather than 'advice'....

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Financial planning

AMP chief executive Craig Dunn used the words 'process-driven' and 'industrialised' to describe the way planning businesses will need to evolve, while also flagging a new...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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