FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Fee-for-service still undefined; consumers have a right to know what is included in the fee and be able to sign off on the costs....

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Financial planning

Programs will bridge gap between technical expertise and client relationships....

Financial planning

The perception of financial advisers continues to drop across the board....

Financial planning

New system enables advisers to provide more product-specific compliant advice and maximise estate planning benefits....

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Financial planning

Industry perceived as "you're all bad, you're all crooked and you all have conflicts of interest": Koromilas....

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Financial planning

Hillross advisers get access to Macquarie Wrap....

Financial planning

A Queensland financial planner's submission to the Rippoll inquiry argues that while the law may distinguish between financial advisers and product salespeople, the finan...

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Accounting

The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Nick Sherry, canvasses a level-playing field when it comes to licensing accountants and financial planners....

Financial planning

Tougher times for financial planners has seen more of them looking for support within major dealer groups, with DKN and Lonsdale reporting significant growth through the ...

Editorial

The move by the Association of Financial Advisers to not support the Financial Planning Association’s proposal to transition away from commissions-based financial advice ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission yesterday obtained Federal Court orders to wind up the two remaining companies in the failed Victorian property inves...

Life/Risk

The national broking group wants to strengthen its life insurance offerings in its 28 branches by recruiting FPA and AFA members to service its existing business client b...

Financial planning

Despite backing the FPA's move on planner remuneration, PIS group managing director Grahame Evans believes an hourly rate payment model for financial planning advice will...

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Financial planning

After a long period of wealth creation, wealth protection is suddenly popular again. BENJAMIN LEVY takes a look at the life risk industry in 2009....

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Financial planning

But a leading industry educator says any difficulties with financial advisers are related to commission arrangements and supervision, not education....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

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

2 months 3 weeks ago

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

4 months 3 weeks ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

1 week ago

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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