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Though self-managed super funds (SMSFs) have continued to enjoy solid growth in 2011, estate planning is an area in need of increased focus, according to Peter Hogan, Pri...
Superannuation
Following the launch of its gearing package in May of this year, self-managed super fund (SMSF) administrator Multiport has announced further enhancements to the service,...
Superannuation
A new automated self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) administration service has been launched into the market, allowing financial planners and SMSF professionals the o...
Superannuation
The financial planning industry has welcomed the Government's proposal to raise the superannuation guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent....
Superannuation
Financial advisers should utilise a recent ATO ruling as an opportunity to review SMSF succession plans....
Financial planning
Financial advisers have reacted angrily to continuing attacks on the industry by compensation lawyers who blame financial planners for negative market performance and enc...
Financial planning
The global financial crisis (GFC) acted as a catalyst for many financial planners to change their business models - something that has placed them in good stead as they d...
Financial planning
Neither financial advisers nor investors have been particularly interested in structured products over the past few years and the sector has significantly shrunk since th...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking from Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP)....
Financial planning
Key regulators have admitted that deliberate financial services fraud is hard to stop with or without regulatory changes....
Financial planning
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has outlined the regulator's proposed measures to improve the "competency and quality of ad...
Financial planning
Most prospective Generation X and Y clients do not know what they want to do financially - and they are a market that requires a focus from financial advisers, according ...
Financial planning
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has unveiled a new advertising campaign to promote the value of financial advice and the need for everyday Australians to form...
Superannuation
The number of SMSFs continues to grow, but the products available to them remain limited....
Financial planning
ISN chief executive David Whiteley declines to tell the AFA conference what industry fund advertising is actually costing....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...