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Financial planning

Financial advisers should report any concerns they have about superannuation funds breaking the intra-fund advice rules to the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have been lumped in with people the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges are involved in inappropriate behaviour around superannuat...

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Financial planning

New market analysis has confirmed that while many advisers are leaving the industry, those that remain are culling clients they regard as unprofitable or hard to service....

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Funds management

Pendal Group has had a better half than most in the face of the COVID-19 market volatility and advisers have been seeking high levels of detail about why. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority remains on notice from a key Parliamentary Committee to explain the consultative processes it used to reach the Finan...

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Financial planning

Money Management is seeking feedback from advisers on how they view their business given the current investment environment. ...

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People & Products

The tool will assist advisers and clients with setting up online meetings as the country switches to remote working. ...

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Financial planning

Association of Financial Advisers chief executive, Phil Kewin, wants a Choice executive to withdraw a statement suggesting financial advisers can’t be trusted to act in c...

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Financial planning

The February sitting of the FASEA exam saw a pass rate of 82% and the June exam will not have a face-to-face sitting....

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to hundreds of millions earned by stockbrokers, advisers and advice firms as a result of the stamping fee...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has created some time and space for advisers by delaying, for now, its work on life insurance advice and conflicted g...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has fired a shot over the bows of real estate agents who have been providing ‘advice’ to hard-pressed tenants about a...

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Financial planning

The message from advisers to clients is ‘don’t crystallise your losses’, while the message from a Money Management survey of advisers to the Australian Securities and Inv...

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Financial planning

Advised Australians are seeing their financial advisers as a life coach in tough times, according to MLC Wealth....

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Financial planning

The Tax Practitioners Board has sought to lighten the load for tax advisers and others by lifting the continuing professional education 25% reading cap for six months. ...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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