FINANCIAL PLANNERS

Policy & Regulation

Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...

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Policy & Regulation

Advisers and their clients should retain control of opt-in arrangements and there should be flexibility for low fee-paying clients with less frequent interactions, accord...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been accused of unilaterally and quietly raising the per adviser levy to $1,142....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are being asked to do no more than other professions in terms of assessing their obligations under Standard 3 of the adviser code of ethics, according ...

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Financial planning

After two decades of stress and pressure from reforms, planners are now facing their own economic uncertainty as many will exit the industry in the new year, according to...

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Financial planning

Money Management is seeking to gauge adviser attitudes to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority in the wake of the recent controversy around the code of et...

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Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has launched FPA Community, for the 14,000 membership to connect online....

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Life/Risk

Fewer financial planners consider client-related challenges to be significant when it comes to growing insurance advice, according to a report....

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Financial planning

Most Australian retirees are not involved with any financial professionals and navigate their way through their retirement finances independently, according to Franklin T...

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Financial planning

The Tax Practitioner’s Board is offering grandfathered arrangements to cover tax financial advisers and others if it succeeds in convincing the Government to allow the re...

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Financial planning

Market analysts are pointing to some key obstacles for AMP Limited, not least the so-called ‘Halloween deadline’ for the exit of unprofitable planners....

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Financial planning

Advisers would do well to assume worst-case scenario outcomes when it comes to extending the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority deadlines, according to weal...

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Policy & Regulation

A new frequent flyer promotion by AustralianSuper has generated criticism from some financial advisers....

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Top 100

The last 12 months caught the financial planning industry in the middle of a transition and struggling to figure out what the new rules of the game will be in a still-evo...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted that its earlier pronouncements on ending grandfathered commissions was based on sample-sized data....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

1 month 3 weeks ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

4 weeks ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

2 weeks 6 days ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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