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One hundred members of the Association of Independently-Owned Financial Planners will be in Vietnam this weekend for the association's two-day annual conference....
Financial planning
Increased ASIC standards regarding PI insurance are expected to lead to higher premiums, but the full effects may not be evident for some time....
Financial planning
A financial adviser who double-geared a risk-averse client into shares has relocated to Europe, while his licensee has been ordered to pay $110,00 in compensation....
Editorial
The long-term effort required to ensure best practice in your financial planning business can reap significant dividends, writes Chandar Varadhan....
Superannuation
Advisers should look at the risk profile of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) as well as the risk profiles of individual members, because the risk tolerance of a ...
Financial planning
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has sent financial advisers a clear message that they need to deal with client requests in a timely and efficient manner by ordering...
Financial planning
It’s a competitive market out there in the acquisitions space as dealer groups compete to build scale. But as JAYSON FORREST discovered, Financial Services Partners belie...
Editorial
Financial planning companies and individual planners have been the subject of severe adverse findings by Financial Ombudsman Service panelists. ...
Financial planning
Complaints about managed investment schemes almost doubled in the past financial year, while complaints about margin loans were also significantly higher....
Financial planning
Financial services providers should not be allowed to appeal against the removal of their licence in cases of bad advice....
Editorial
Is the financial services industry ready to embrace a different regulatory model in circumstances where ASIC has not lived up to the expectations of some? Mike Taylor rep...
Financial planning
Submission to the joint parliamentary inquiry claims the buyer of last resort policy is biased towards product providers....
Financial planning
Low-cost advice is a good thing, writes JO-ANNE BLOCH, but some aspects of the new intra-fund advice rules just don’t make sense from a policy, enforcement or delivery p...
Financial planning
Dealer groups are concerned about the need to change their Australian Financial Services Licences as a result of the new rules around margin lending....
Superannuation
New guidelines around the payment of product-directed commissions to financial planners is the most significant, but not the only, recommendation in a charter that aims t...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...