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The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised planners who term client risk profiles as either ‘conservative’ or ‘aggressive’, arguing that such an approach can...

Financial planning

Clients may be facing “poorer” and “fragmented” advice on superannuation fund structures under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) if accountants are unable to give ...

Editorial

Listed investments are readily accessible, well established and offer diversification, but they’re not yet in widespread use by planners....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) and publisher CCH have jointly launched an electronic compliance manual for financial planners....

Financial planning

While the pay may be less than spectacular, paraplanning is set to become a career in its own right. Ben Abbott reports....

Financial planning

A financial planner from Wollongong, New South Wales, has become the latest adviser to incur the wrath of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission....

Financial planning

If we thought we had problems in Australia, they pale in comparison to those besetting the financial planning industry in Canada. Julie Bennett and Lucie Beaman report....

Editorial

The financial planning industry in the UK is in a state of flux. Lisa Bowman reports....

Financial planning

The Financial Service Reform Act will not change community perceptions of financial planners nor will it stop people from being dishonest according to International CFP C...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned a New South Wales investment adviser from providing any financial advice after he misap...

Financial planning

The inaugural Business Development Manager (BDM) of the Year Award was hugely popular, with hundreds of readers nominating 98 BDMs for the award. Culling the list to a ma...

Financial planning

Only one in 10 wealth accumulators between 40 and 50 year old use a financial planner while nine out of 10 in this group use an accountant according to Ipac chief executi...

Financial planning

The differences in attitudes that men and women bring to the provision of financial services are not that wide, rather it appears that women have yet to have their needs ...

Financial planning

Sports stars can earn big money, but their careers can also be very short. Aaron Dunn reports....

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