FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

The rising cost of financial advice along with a change in demographics has led to more clients only wanting advice to solve particular issues rather than ongoing advice....

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Expert Analysis

Setting a goal with clients is a good step in the financial advice process, writes Johann Maree, but there are ways that these goals can be SMARTER....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have been making more of a distinction between accumulation and decumulation portfolios but these approaches are largely ad-hoc with little way of indu...

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Financial planning

The Corporations Act still dictates that the sale of a product remains integral to the definition of financial advice and regulating around that fact is like trying bang ...

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Financial planning

The corporate regulator’s decision to ignore the problem with the term ‘general advice’ will continue to confuse consumers, according to the Financial Planning Associatio...

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Financial planning

According to the Association of Financial Advisers, this will help make advice accessible for lower income clients....

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Financial planning

Senator Jane Hume announced the FSC Life Insurance Summit that Treasury will assume control, merging it with the quality of advice review....

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Expert Analysis

Providing financial advice has managed to stand the test of time, writes Michael Pillemer, despite the rollercoaster of changes which have affected the industry in recent...

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Financial planning

The relief measure allowing advisers to provide a record of advice rather than a statement of advice to clients that needed advice due to the impact of COVID-19 has been ...

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Financial planning

Responding to adviser submissions, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed it is considering providing regulatory relief so that advisers can p...

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People & Products

Link Group’s partnership with the fintech firm aims to help customers prepare for retirement through affordable financial advice and to help them through their Age Pensio...

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Financial planning

In the last four exams, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has acknowledged that advice documentation is a problem area with exam performance. ...

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Financial planning

Four former IOOF-licensed firms, four of them Bridges operatives, have moved home to Count Financial....

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Financial planning

Ezzat-Daniel Nesseim has been charged with 16 offences and the corporate regulator alleged that he gave false answers and information under oath....

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People & Products

The offering is a phone-based conversation to cover super contributions, insurance, and investments for AMP’s Super Directions Fund members....

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