FINANCIAL PLANNER

Financial planning

As the financial planning industry grapples with how to institute new professional and education standards, Jason Spits examines what mind-set and attitudes new entrants ...

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Financial planning

Financial planners and accountants will not be able to work with each other if the former seeks ad-hoc relationships and the latter only seeks revenue from any joint... ...

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Financial planning

ASIC tells of man banned as a planner but still operating as an accountant and providing tax advice....

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Financial planning

A financial planner has backed ASIC’s call to instil financial literacy into the school education system, saying literacy is lacking in adults too....

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Financial planning

The FPA is using its annual Financial Planning Week to try and change consumer perceptions that financial planners are only for the affluent....

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Financial planning

Dealer group Libertas Financial Planning expands its dealer services model to accountants and signs first accountancy practice to the service....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the drive for higher educational standards for financial planners has served to regenerate criticism of those people who were grandfathered into t...

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Superannuation

Self-Managed Superannuation Fund service providers with origins in accounting tend to be bigger and more profitable than those that started out as financial planner or ad...

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Financial planning

A convicted shoplifter has failed in his bid to secure compensation after claiming the NSW Police’s failure to pass on documents relating to an appeal meant he could not ...

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Financial planning

A former financial planner who is serving a 13-year prison sentence has been permanently banned from providing financial services and engaging in credit activity by the A...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has called on ASIC to conduct an audit of orphan commissions. ...

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Financial planning

The BFP claims a structural flaw has allowed banks, insurers and super funds to dress up product sales as advice....

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Superannuation

Women are increasingly becoming disengaged from their superannuation, placing an onus on planners to start a dialogue about the issue in client consultations, a planner b...

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Policy & Regulation

Industry Super Australia (ISA) has reiterated its view that Future of Financial Advise (FOFA) reforms should be given time to deliver benefits to consumers before new cha...

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Financial planning

Planners and accountants unlikely to take each other’s work due to workloads involved. ...

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