FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Employers and businesses must attain verification at the source for educational and employment background of advisers for the national register of advisers to be reliable...

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Financial planning

The bad news regarding planners will be forgotten with falling numbers indicative of cultural change according to AFA national president Deborah Kent....

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Financial planning

ClearView has told the Trowbridge working group it wants the word “commissions” replaced along with the banning of shelf space fees and volume bonuses....

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Financial planning

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand are urging the Government to simplify the arrangements around the tax deductibility of advice fees....

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Financial planning

The ABA is backing the Federal Government’s recommendation of co-regulation as a solution to FOFA issues....

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Financial planning

The Assistant Treasurer has confirmed he will consult all relevant stakeholders in the advice sector before putting into place any recommendations around adviser standard...

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Financial planning

Life/risk advisers concerned at reports FSC submission urges 20 per cent flat commission and five-year responsibility period....

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Financial planning

After this week’s leadership challenge the Federal Government will not waste political capital championing changes to FOFA according to the AFA....

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Policy & Regulation

The AFA has been accredited with the TPB, allowing eligible members a new avenue to seek registration with the board. ...

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Financial planning

Concerned that the Trowbridge report reflects their working reality, life/risk advisers dominate 130 submissions to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group....

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People & Products

Financial planning firm, Anne Street Partners (ASP), has appointed former St George Financial Planning executive, Jason Dunn, to the role of head of strategy and advice w...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers’ fee structures abet “closet indexing” by fund managers, creating a clear conflict of interest between planners’ earnings and their clients’ best inter...

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Funds management

Retail investors significantly lack geographical and asset class diversification in portfolios, Goldman Sachs Asset Management found....

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Financial planning

Client relationships are the only real value financial advisers can bring to the table as automation increasingly replaces the process work, Wayne Leggett said....

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Financial planning

Accounting graduates may prove the “feeding ground” for the evolving financial advice space, according to the head of the AFA. ...

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