FINANCIAL ADVICE

Financial planning

Industry Super Australia wants the Government’s FSR process to traverse conflicts of interest and the role of sales and advice personnel....

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Financial planning

Boutique Financial Planners Principals' Group (BFPPG) has renewed its push for transparent licensee ownership disclosure, hoping the rounding off of FOFA reforms will all...

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Financial planning

The threat of regulatory change has outranked cyber crime and PR disasters as the greatest risk to the financial services industry, a survey shows. ...

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Financial planning

FOFA reforms have not impacted recruitment within financial services, with some businesses looking to increase staff numbers....

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Financial planning

Recruitment expert says hiring activity in wealth management is currently at its highest levels in two years....

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Policy & Regulation

Large number of planning practices ready to act on grandfathering amendments after preparing in advance....

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Life/Risk

The provision of advice during life insurance claims should be part of an holistic advice model but has been largely ignored....

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Financial planning

The demand for financial advice is quickly rising, with industry super funds expected to deliver, according to an Investment Trends report....

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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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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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