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The FPA and AFA have welcomed draft regulations that will enshrine the term 'financial planner/adviser' in law as an important consumer protection move....
Financial planning
The Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, has released draft legislation that will protect the terms "financial planner" and "financial advise...
Financial planning
It was Michelle Tate-Lovery's drive to professionalism and focus on client education which won her the 2012 Money Management Financial Planner of the Year title. Milana P...
Financial planning
Financial planning clients remain sceptical about their fees regardless of their wealth levels, according to research by the International Centre for Financial Services (...
Financial planning
ASIC has handed out its second enforceable undertaking this month to a former Storm Financial adviser....
Financial planning
Money Management Platforms and Wraps seminar hears FOFA will not unduly undermine the smaller independents....
Financial planning
There are terms hidden in the upcoming Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation that every financial planner must be familiar with. ...
Financial planning
Former Guardian Financial Planning financial adviser Susan Heathwood has been handed two suspended prison sentences after pleading guilty to two charges of dishonest cond...
Financial planning
The 2004 class order issued under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC's) managed discretionary account (MDA) policy needs to be reviewed to bette...
People & Products
Mercer has expanded its financial advice team in Western Australia with the appointment of Michael Heffernan, the former head of advice with the Government Employees Supe...
Financial planning
ASIC's 2011/12 annual report has outlined the amount of surveillance and enforcement action the regulator completed in the financial advice sector in the past year....
Financial planning
A PIS adviser has been banned for three years for failing to comply with financial services laws....
Financial planning
The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....
Financial planning
While a number of companies rooted in mortgage broking have expanded into financial planning, it is an area of cultural, regulatory and legal challenges....
Life/Risk
New research undertaken by CommInsure has reinforced the long-term implications of the Government's remuneration restrictions around the sale of life/risk insurance withi...
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So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...