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Financial planning

As Commonwealth FP again finds itself in the media spotlight, the FPA has defended the manner in which it has handled members who broke bad....

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Financial planning

AMP Capital has launched an online resource centre to help financial advisers engage their clients in more meaningful investment conversations and facilitate the adviser’...

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Life/Risk

Skyrocketing life insurance claims have been grabbing headlines for some time now, but the impact on advisers – and the input of lawyers – has largely gone unreported, Cr...

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Financial planning

Financial planning firms and dealer groups would be levied by ASIC according to the number of authorised and employee representatives they have on their books....

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Financial planning

Following up on its move to actively target its existing network of independent financial advisers, Investec Australia has reduced the interest rates on its tailored home...

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Financial planning

Contrary to what some believe, the client owns the client: the client is not owned by the adviser, the dealer group or the broker, as Craig Parker explains. ...

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Financial planning

While education has long been the yardstick by which advisers are measured, the bar has been raised and standards have become more widespread than ever before. As Jason S...

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Financial planning

ASIC bans Victorian-based financial adviser Allan Burt Vissenjoux from providing financial services....

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA has moved to enter the FOFA pause consultations with an analysis designed to counter a “rolling campaign of fiction and misrepresentation”....

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Financial planning

ASIC is facing a permanent reduction in funding and is looking to cut staff as a result....

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Policy & Regulation

The FSC has obtained legal advice from a Senior Counsel confirming the Government’s FOFA changes will not undermine client best interest or consumer protections....

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Funds management

Advised investors are more bullish in investing offshore and hold more stable views towards global investment compared to non-advised investors, an Investment Trends repo...

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Funds management

ETF investments have shot up 50 per cent in the last year, but the bulk of the traffic is still not driven by advisers, a report shows....

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Editorial

PIS parent Centrepoint Alliance has reported an increase in pre-tax profit but was hit by declining numbers and ongoing claims against advisers....

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Financial planning

Despite financial planning being the most valued service offered by a super fund, only a small percentage of members use it....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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