FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Editorial

The Financial Planning Association has clearly defined the difference between planners and accountants and why one size does not fit all with respect to remuneration, Mik...

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Financial planning

The financial advice sector will be slapped with a fixed levy of $1,500 under ASIC’s cost recovery framework, while super trustees will face a 'graduate component' based ...

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Features

When the Government initially announced the professional standards bill, one of the biggest concerns was whether there would be an early retirement exodus of late-career ...

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Features

Now is the best time for advisers and advice businesses to take control of current opportunities to grow the profession and the industry, John de Zwart writes....

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Superannuation

Advisers and super funds must strive to change members’ thinking about their super as a balance in an account to an income stream that would provide for their retirement....

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Accounting

Accountants and financial advisers should use data analytical capabilities of artificial intelligence and robo-advice to enhance their services of providing financial gui...

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People & Products

Partners Wealth Group has launched a soft skills training program for new advisers entering the market on the back of industry feedback....

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Financial planning

Financial services firm, Centrepoint Alliance, has launched a client interface developed for advisers....

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Financial planning

Financial planners were only exploring aged care financial advice at a time of crisis for clients and their relatives, but this area could become mainstream in the future...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government announced a new independent standards body for financial advisers, as a part of its professional standard reforms....

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Top 100

For the first time Money Management asked the dealer groups in a survey to share their views on the educational requirements for new advisers as well as their expectation...

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Financial planning

AFA chief executive, Brad Fox, has stressed the need for advisers to experiment and share results with their peers to adapt to change and thrive....

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Policy & Regulation

Advisers must collectively embrace legislative and regulatory change to cope with an increasingly complex advice world that is no longer about selling insurance....

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Financial planning

There is a need for more financial advisers to develop their own business, Centrepoint Alliance believes....

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Financial planning

The Australian Bankers' Association has imposed a planner hiring protocol for use by members to screen out bad planners....

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