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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have joined forces in an attempt to improve written communication...

Financial planning

Accountants and financial planners work in the same space but often don’t see eye to eye. Jason Spits finds out where the stumbling blocks are and what planners can do to...

Financial planning

The financial services industry’s preoccupation with large-scale business operations is creating significant performance issues for bigger players in the industry, argues...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

Mercer Human Resource Consulting today launched Mercer Wealth Solutions to provide super fund members with financial advice and information on savings, lifestyle, debt ma...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has slammed a recommendation by the Federal Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services that may allow a...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...

Financial planning

Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...

Financial planning

Independent ratings company Adviser Ratings has found that almost a third of financial planners have noticed a change in business volume since the release of the Australi...

Financial planning

Women as a target market is an obvious choice, but, as Jason Spits writes, what sets them apart is what financial advisers should be looking at....

Financial planning

The market for financial advice in Europe is highly fragmented according to a report by independent market analyst Datamonitor, with the UK leading the way in the indepen...

Financial planning

Japanese investors are stubbornly ambivalent to the provision of financial advice according to US-based research firm Cerulli Associates, meaning Japanese advisers are co...

Financial planning

Nobody really thinks the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) is working, says TOM COLLINS, and for that reason it should be scrubbed....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained a permanent ban against a former financial adviser, John Michael Higgins, from providing financia...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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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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