FINANCIAL PLANNER

Financial planning

Salary freezes and reductions, job cuts and drawn-out recruitment processes: challenging times lie ahead, but the diversity of the financial services sector means a varie...

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Financial planning

Financial planners are venting their frustrations regarding real and perceived conflicts of interest created by commission payments to the parliamentary inquiry into the ...

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Life/Risk

Sixty per cent claim their main concern was ensuring that the family mortgage would be paid if the unexpected happened....

Financial planning

In his second submission to the parliamentary inquiry into banking and financial services, Queensland financial planner Bruce Baker argues that with or without commission...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is a key industry body, but it’s time for it to evolve into a greater force, writes RAY GRIFFIN....

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Editorial

It would have come as no surprise to the chief executive of the Financial Planning Association, Jo-Anne Bloch, that she was subject to some stern questioning from the flo...

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Life/Risk

Is insurance really all about product and price, asks CHRIS KIRBY....

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Financial planning

Under the new margin lending regulations, margin lenders will have responsibility for informing clients of margin calls, unless separate arrangements are put in place to ...

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Financial planning

Financial services lawyer Peter Bobbin has rejected calls for more regulation around the roles played by financial product salesman and financial advisers, saying a recen...

Editorial

The fees paid for tax returns prepared by an accountant are tax deductible. Should the same apply to a visit to your financial adviser?...

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Financial planning

Financial planners are more than advisers, they're life coaches, writes Steve Helmich...

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Financial planning

Also criticises the transfer of the Financial Literacy Foundation to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

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Funds management

The number of advisers and investors using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is set to grow significantly, according to a study by researcher Investment Trends....

Financial planning

Moves to plug the awareness gap about financial planning among university students....

Financial planning

Super switchers are failing to get financial advice but most have very low account balances and are migrating to industry funds....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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