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Financial planning

Collaboration is key for future of AI: Kaplan, Red Marker

Kaplan Professional and RegTech fintech, Red Marker, have championed for greater collaboration across financial services to help advisers leverage artificial intelligence...

Financial planning

PC calls for higher SMSF advice standards

With adviser education set to be a continued focus for the industry in the new year, the SMSF Association has welcomed the Productivity Commission’s call for high advice ...

Financial planning

Financial adviser exam will cost millions

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s business plan has revealed the financial adviser exam will cost millions and be the authority’s single biggest expe...

Financial planning

AFCA names and shames 231 financial firms

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has publicly listed 231 financial firms potentially in breach of their licensing obligations....

Financial planning

We acted on consultation feedback: FASEA

The chief executive of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, Stephen Glenfield, today sought to reassure planners that the Authority had taken account of ...

Financial planning

FASEA delivers some key concessions

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has delivered some key concessions within its revised Standards Blueprint....

Financial planning

Call for compulsory annual reporting on adviser trails

Big industry fund, AustralianSuper has called for an end to grandfathering and for a legal obligation on superannuation funds to provide members with an annual report of ...

Financial planning

Regular client reviews could restore trust in advisers

While annual reviews with financial advisers are the key to client and business success, only half of advisers are actually conducting them....

People & Products

InvestSMART launches pricing model

Digital wealth platform, InvestSMART has launched a new pricing model via its PMA platform....

Policy & Regulation

ATO refines data-matching of share trades

Advisers and their clients have been put on notice to maintain a tighter focus on share trades with the Australian Taxation Office now capable of matching share trades ag...

Financial planning

Advisers crucial in divorce planning

Getting help from a financial adviser can be just as crucial as speaking to a lawyer during divorce proceedings, according to Cardena Private Wealth’s Iain Reid....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC warns planners on death nomination practices

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a final warning to the financial services industry to stop cutting corners in breach of the law regarding ...

Financial planning

Adviser penalty regime ad-hoc and confused

The Association of Financial Advisers has called for clarity in the penalty regime covering financial planning in circumstances where it appears to have evolved to become...