FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Editorial

A strategy for winning the Tour de France has a surprising number of elements in common with winning the race in investing and financial planning, according to Edward Smi...

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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar spoke about the so-called claims management bullies earlier this year at the Money Management Risk Issues workshop. In this second part of his presentation h...

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Financial planning

The chairman of the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC laments that its greatest successes appear to have occurred after the damage has already been done....

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Financial planning

ASIC signals it will look to the most senior levels when it detects a bad compliance culture....

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Financial planning

Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief executive officer Brad Fox has called for a new life insurance awareness campaign after a white paper revealed a huge gap be...

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Editorial

The financial services industry’s approach to post-retirement has long been regarded as stale. Critics’ voices have become ever louder and, as Janine Mace reports, the in...

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Editorial

When Commonwealth Financial Planning was subjected to an enforceable undertaking imposed by ASIC in 2011, it was the subject of a good deal of media coverage in Money Man...

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Editorial

Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...

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Financial planning

Homesafe Solutions believes market conditions have generated an environment conducive to equity release products....

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Life/Risk

Some progress appears to be being made towards finding common ground on life/risk sustainability and churn....

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Accounting

A new ICAA white paper argues the case for a new Government to recognise the ability of accountants to rebuild community trust in the financial services industry....

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Editorial

With Parliament having risen for the final time before the Federal election and the new legislative settings now largely in place, Lisa Claes says that when the regulator...

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Financial planning

Insurer AIA Australia has launched its Priority Protection product suite on the Asgard superannuation platform....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers should not ignore the value of having soft and sales skills when it comes to servicing their clients, writes Tim Browne. ...

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Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

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