FINANCIAL ADVISERS

Financial planning

Asgard has launched a new website aimed at helping financial advisers manage critical dates and client communications associated with the end of the financial year....

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Policy & Regulation

The financial advice industry's FOFA lobbying effort has highlighted the need for a united voice, according to a panel of experts....

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Superannuation

Financial planners as well as super funds targeting clients have to develop a new holistic model of advice to attract the younger generation of superannuation asset holde...

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Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has urged taxpayers to seek independent financial advice before entering so-called tax avoidance schemes as they prepare to lodge the...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has been accused of taking a "backward and capricious step" by altering the tax settings on superannuation in the forthcoming Federal Budget....

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has rebuilt their website to allow increased interactivity....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers must develop a more complex toolset to provide advice, according to senior Milliman consultants who criticised the simplistic advice models being used ...

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Financial planning

Compliant industry codes of conduct deemed to obviate the need to comply with opt-in requirements will have to meet a hefty set of criteria, according to ASIC commissione...

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Financial planning

ASIC has permanently banned a former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser after he was found to have forged the signatures of four of his clients....

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Financial planning

A former Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser has been permanently banned by ASIC after it was found he had forged the signatures of four of his clients....

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Financial planning

As part of a recent push into the financial advice space, ING Direct has rolled out a new website aimed at providing its adviser network with online access to client reco...

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Superannuation

MLC has experienced a rise in clients accessing superannuation online, particularly among baby boomers. ...

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Financial planning

The average financial planning practice has a lot of room for improvement in major areas such as client communication and succession planning, according to data from fina...

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Editorial

From his conversations with financial advisers, TAL Limited’s Jim Minto has identified three game-changing topics....

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Superannuation

Superannuation is usually the biggest talking point for most advisers during tax season. Concessional contribution caps will certainly be top of mind this year given the ...

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