FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

ClearView Wealth has recruited six new financial planning practices in July, bringing the total number of advisers in the dealer group to 78....

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Financial planning

An unlicensed Sydney-based financial planner has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Financial planning

Financial adviser caution generated by the global financial crisis and its continuing aftermath has served to disguise a general shift away from managed funds, according ...

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Policy & Regulation

Association of Financial Advisers looks to take facilitative approach on implementation of the Future of Financial Advice regulations....

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Funds management

Financial advisers should rethink the benefits of value-style share funds as active management falls across the Australian large-cap share funds sector, according to Morn...

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Policy & Regulation

Elixir Consulting has urged financial planners not to leave it too late to remodel their pricing structures before Future of Financial Advice changes come into effect....

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Superannuation

SMSFs need to carefully consider the estate planning ramifications before commencing a pension or their beneficiaries might face serious tax consequences, explains Nichol...

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Financial planning

The importance of LinkedIn as a lead-generation tool has been highlighted in a recent survey of American financial advisers....

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Life/Risk

Col Fullagar suggests that the need for an underlying logic in any risk insurance recommendation, including TPD, is an important component of safe advice....

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Life/Risk

Direct life insurance will account for 40 per cent of all new insurance business by 2021, according to Plan For Life data....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...

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Financial planning

Women need financial advice, and the financial planning industry needs more women, writes AMP Horizons Academy's Tim Steele....

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Funds management

With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...

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Financial planning

By convincing younger financial advisers that 'sales' is not a dirty word, Synchron has reduced the average age of its representatives by 10 years since 2006, according t...

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Financial planning

ASIC has formed an agreement with New Zealand's FMA which will allow advisers trained in Australia to have their qualifications recognised in New Zealand and vice versa....

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