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Financial planning

A PIS adviser has been banned for three years for failing to comply with financial services laws....

Financial planning

AFA white paper analyses client perceptions

The AFA has launched a white paper called Pathways to Excellence, which analyses what clients want from advice businesses....

Financial planning

Financial planners confront the challenge from mortgage brokers

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

Lion’s share of life insurance sold through superannuation

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...

Superannuation

Crackdown urged on SMSF rogues

Chan and Naylor's David Hasib urges crackdown on "rogues" promoting and advising on SMSFs....

Financial planning

Detail arrives on how code of conduct will obviate opt-in

ASIC has released a consultation paper to determine how a professional code of conduct will obviate the need for a financial adviser to comply with opt-in provisions cont...

Financial planning

Building a professional website takes less time and money

For a financial adviser, building a strong marketing capability via social media needs to start with a professional website, something that is now cheaper and less compli...

Editorial

The role of the ACCC in financial services

There has been a tendency to forget about the ACCC ever since the regulation of consumer protection in the financial services industry moved to ASIC in 2001. But as Grant...

Financial planning

Questions all clients ask their financial adviser

Fidelity’s Tom Stevenson explores some of the questions clients ask their financial advisers – and provides the answers....

Financial planning

Planners, mortgage brokers to move closer

Financial planning firms are increasingly likely to link with mortgage brokers, but the different skill sets, remuneration models and legal interpretations remain a barri...

Editorial

Independent financial advisers are alive and well

While FOFA and a number of other factors have seen many planners moving under the umbrellas of the major banks and institutions, the independent financial advice sector i...

Financial planning

Week left to nominate the Financial Planner of the Year

There is only a week left to nominate Money Management's Financial Planner of the Year (FPOTY) for 2012 as the nominations close on Thursday, 11 October....

Tools & guides

Typical risk profiling mistakes and how to avoid them

Finametrica founder Paul Resnik argues that risk profiling tools are all very well, but it is a financial adviser's ability to use those tools that really matters....

Financial planning

Software a potential distraction for financial planners

Improvements to advice delivery solutions may assist financial advisers in running a smoother business, but it can also pull them away from their core proposition of prov...