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Financial planners are unhappy with the service they receive from financial service providers, notably in areas of staff helpfulness and underwriting new business, a rece...

Financial planning

Financial planners should take-on estate agents for a slice of the direct property investment market, says a new report by Property Investment Research (PIR)....

Financial planning

Asgard is seeking to access and support up to 15 dealer groups with at least $20 million under administration who are interested in entering the corporate superannuation ...

Financial planning

It has been often stated in recent weeks that this year would be a very big year for the financial services industry in terms of far reaching developments and events....

Financial planning

The term retail means less now than what it did five years ago....

Financial planning

Fund managers can breathe a sigh of relief now that the Securities Commission has decided not to review their practices, however financial planners aren't so lucky...

Financial planning

Inflows into retail financial services products do not accurately reflect the current state of the market since they do not track funds entering master trusts and wraps a...

Financial planning

MLC will use intermediaries to distribute MLC Corporate Solutions rather than going direct to market as it has done in the past....

Financial planning

Over the past 12 months the working lives of Australia’s financial planning fraternity has been given a good shakeup and for some, even been turned upside down. The bad n...

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The IOOF Group has expanded its focus on retail distribution with the purchase of a 50 per cent stake in Victorian based dealer group WorkForce Financial Services....

Financial planning

An open letter to: Directors of Institutional Financial Planning Groups;...

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AMP has launched Australia’s first on-line financial planning service, My Plan, catering for both the do it yourself (DIY) market and financial planners....

Financial planning

For a man who has just been named Money Management Financial Planner of the Year, John Wotherspoon is trying awfully hard to try and make himself redundant. But then Woth...

Financial planning

There are a number of forces, which will combine to recreate the wealth management Industry. These forces are so powerful that they may lead the wealth management industr...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has kicked off is privacy push at its recent annual convention with the launch of a kit designed to help advisers ensure they mee...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months 2 weeks ago

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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