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Financial planning

Both the AFA and FPA have questioned the three-year clawback period outlined in the FSC's new life insurance sales policy. ...

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Life/Risk

Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden has announced a new life insurance sales policy revolving around the clawback of commissions if a policy lapses in...

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Life/Risk

Some boutiques are not providing professional indemnity cover to new advisers according to Townsend Business and Corporate Lawyers....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the reputational damage often suffered by the financial planning industry might be substantially reduced if regulators and the media were a little...

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Financial planning

Most direct investors want advice but they are unclear on adviser's value propositions, CoreData has found....

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Superannuation

New report advocates tailoring SMSF advice to generational needs....

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Financial planning

Professional codes of conduct that meet approval in terms of obviating the need for financial advisers to comply with opt-in will need to achieve the same outcomes as opt...

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Financial planning

Insurance-based dealer group Ausure selects simpleWRAP as preferred platform for high net worths....

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Financial planning

Securitor's Matt Englund urges financial planners to make FOFA irrelevant by having the correct systems in place....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers need to view scaled advice as an ongoing opportunity rather than a threat to their business model, according to Provisio Technologies director Cameron ...

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Financial planning

Financial planners must take into account generational differences when preparing advice for SMSF investors, according to a new report....

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Financial planning

While the outlook for portfolio returns has gotten somewhat better, financial advisers continue to tread cautiously with their clients....

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Financial planning

Russell Investments director for client investment strategies Scott Fletcher says emotional investing is leading to clients abandoning long-term strategies for wealth cre...

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are overlooking the opportunity to grow their referral networks with social media, according to Zurich Financial Services' Marc Fabris....

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Funds management

Financial planners lack an understanding of fixed income, which has been over-complicated by fixed income asset managers, according Philip Gardner, head of asset manageme...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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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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