FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Advisers are in a position to demand more stringent warranties when they are looking to buy portfolios, The Fold Legal believes....

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People & Products

National consultancy group Elixir Consulting has launched a virtual business coaching portal for financial advisers in Australia....

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Financial planning

Most financial advisers strongly support the tax deductibility of advice, except where it involves products sales such as life/risk policies....

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Financial planning

Advisers should aspire to add value and go beyond being only investment managers selecting investments on behalf of their clients, according to Russell investments’ repor...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has told the Tax Practitioners Board that its proposal to impose the need for a Letter of Engagement on financial (tax) advisers is ...

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Funds management

DomaCom has announced it has launched a senior equity release product aimed at enabling financial advisers to offer the product to clients who are seeking to release a po...

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Funds management

BetaShares has announced that its exchange traded fund model portfolios are now accessible to financial advisers via separately managed accounts....

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Financial planning

Almost 500 advisers have attended the first ethics training course run by TAL, as industry players rush to assist planners in meeting the impending Financial Adviser Stan...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have expressed concern and anger at product manufacturers who have written to advice clients informing them how to switch off grandfathered commissions...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has passed a key milestone, opening up adviser exam registration and sitting dates along with a curriculum guide and ...

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Financial planning

The Ethics Centre has announced it will develop a FASEA accredited ethics course for financial advisers....

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People & Products

Investment research firm Resonant Asset Management has launched a new private label multi-asset SMA program with direct stocks....

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Accounting

New data from Adviser Ratings suggests there more than 1,000 advisers who have found themselves without a licensee or have exited the industry....

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Policy & Regulation

Financial advisers were notable by their absence from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s latest Enforcement Update....

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Financial planning

Money Management’s survey of financial advisers has revealed that 25 per cent of respondents have degrees that don’t appropriately measure-up under the Financial Adviser ...

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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...

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

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