FINANCIAL ADVICE

Superannuation

Changes to FOFA highlight the need for specialist SMSF advice, according to SPAA....

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Editorial

Grandfathering – specifically the transition of pre-existing commission-based advice fees into the new FOFA arrangements – was an industry football that kept getting kick...

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Editorial

The Abbott Government has provided David Murray with plenty of scope to go deep when he leads the forthcoming Financial Systems Review, writes Mike Taylor....

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Editorial

The financial services industry has spent much of the past six years dealing with legislative and regulatory change and, as Mike Taylor writes, the forthcoming Financial ...

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Financial planning

As the big banks move their focus away from advice, financial planners will most likely return to the non-aligned space, lawyer says....

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Financial planning

While the financial advice industry remains subject to much surveillance and scrutiny, the regulators are 10 years behind in bringing mortgage brokers to task, some claim...

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Financial planning

Sinodinos signals the Government’s approach to FOFA will be made public before Christmas....

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Financial planning

Non-aligned advice can compete and grow but needs to shift focus away from asset management....

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Financial planning

BlackRock’s inaugural global survey found clients highly value financial advice but only 15 per cent use it....

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Financial planning

The financial planning profession needs time to regroup before any further reform is explored, an industry body believes. ...

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Financial planning

Amid the implementation Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) requirements, Infocus chief executive Rod Bristow said a many Infocus offices have seen an increase in new busin...

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Editorial

Christine Swanson was one of the key driving forces behind the launch of the Association of Financial Advisers’ Inspire initiative, which was created to connect and encou...

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Editorial

Cherie Feher, the Money Management/Super Review Women in Financial Services Awards' Rising Star, is no stranger to financial planning, having worked as a compliance manag...

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Financial planning

It’s time to put the vexed question of financial advice and vertical integration into perspective, writes David O’Reilly....

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Financial planning

Is scaled advice a game only the big guys can play? Malavika Santhebennur explores some of the things that might be stopping smaller financial planning practices from pro...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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