FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Prominent Financial Services director, Christine Swanson recognised with chair of AFA Inspire....

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Policy & Regulation

Fewer Australians will be able to afford to obtain financial advice following the Senate’s decision to disallow the Government Future of Financial Advice regulations, the...

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Financial planning

AMP SMSF has backed calls for making it compulsory for financial advisers to undertake specific training if they are going to advise on SMSFs....

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Financial planning

New research suggests SMSF advice is a prime area for consolidation....

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Financial planning

Advisory firms will need to examine how they communicate risk to clients under FOFA and not trust that old methods will still be suitable in the future. ...

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Funds management

Financial advisers should examine the ten year performance of fund managers as market failures and bubbles often take more than five years to full play out....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to start being digital application doctors to their clients and think about what applications they can use to help clients....

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Financial planning

As risk planning remains a hot topic in the financial advice space, Malavika Santhebennur explores the top 10 legal quandaries planners can find themselves in and how to ...

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Financial planning

FSGs should be part of the national register of advisers to prevent consumers getting skewed information from commercially operated websites. ...

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Financial planning

Dealer group head laments lack of consultation with planning industry ahead of launch of Adviser Ratings....

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Financial planning

The FPA has reported a 100 per cent surge in its CFP program take up after the CBA and AMP raised educational standards following scandals at the CBA and Macquarie Bank....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers and dealer groups will be able to track and record every client interaction they have, to ensure compliance standards are being met, with the roll-out ...

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Life/Risk

Cheap group insurance cover has been used by industry funds to partially erode the client base of financial advisers while shoring up their own member base....

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Awards

A constant focus on the planner, and not the product, has won Shivani Gopal wide-scoping praise in the financial advice industry. ...

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Financial planning

BDM of the Year 2014: Shivani Gopal, Asteron Life A constant focus on the planner, and not the product, has won Shivani Gopal wide-scoping praise in the financial advice...

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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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