FINANCIAL ADVICE

Awards

In the fifteenth year of the Money Management/DEXX&R Adviser Choice Risk Awards, MLC Life has maintained its top place on the podium as the Risk Company of the Year for 2...

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Expert Analysis

Antoinette Mullins draws on her personal experience and explains how to navigate your client’s money values to ensure they get the best outcomes. ...

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Expert Analysis

Margo Lydon says financial advisers should consider clients’ mental and emotional wellbeing if they want to build high-trust relationships....

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Financial planning

Industry Super Australia has objected to exempting personal financial advice from product design and distribution obligations, arguing planners need to be held responsibl...

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Financial planning

IOOF has sought to ensure the retention of newly-acquired ANZ aligned advisers by offering participation in an ‘Adviser Recognition Program’ with vesting heavily reliant ...

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Financial planning

Dishonestly using his position to gain benefits in the amount of $800,000 has seen a former Gold Coast financial adviser sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison by th...

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Superannuation

Major planning software provider, IRESS has launched an automated personal advice solution for superannuation funds....

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Financial planning

The Royal Commission saw employment prospects in banking and insurance plummet more than any other sector for the September quarter, according to the Sunsuper Australian ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has suggested risk rating financial products to better target consumer protections....

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Financial planning

Despite the bad press, 38 per cent of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and 20 per cent of advised consumers say the Royal Commission will make them even more likely to ...

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Financial planning

Accounting and financial services firms warn next generation industry workers to future-proof their businesses or risk losing clients....

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Superannuation

New research from State Street confirms that good advice and policy certainty are keys to retirement happiness....

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Financial planning

Advice businesses will find the future increasingly challenging unless they can gain the necessary advantages of scale, according to a new report from Fortnum Private Wea...

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Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission interim report has highlighted dishonesty and greed as two recurring themes in the financial advice industry....

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been warned that calling degree-qualified advisers “Provisional Financial Advisers” during their professional yea...

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